tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post7005568465318679180..comments2023-10-18T03:45:34.271-04:00Comments on Mental Blog: Werds By The PoundLarry Keilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1722497349724603872009-04-20T20:01:00.000-04:002009-04-20T20:01:00.000-04:00WT, you know you would make a good writer of what ...WT, you know you would make a good writer of what I've called "fractured history" (like the Roberta Peary North Pole story I wrote) cuz when it comes to historical stuff your mind kinda works the same as mine.<br /><br />(Which is a sneaky way of saying <I>I</I> am a great writer of fractured history...<br /><br />The Boston Tea Party didn't happen until more than 100 years after Cromwell. But there <I>is</I> a sort of connection since many of the first colonists in the New World were Puritans like Cromwell.<br /><br />And then, there was also a Cromwell before the Oliver. Thomas. Who (I think I have this straight) was one of Henry VIII's ministers, and also came to have a bad reputation in British history.<br /><br />Now, the Tea Party was really only symbolic. The dispute was over taxation by the British Crown. The Yanks dumped tea in Boston Harbour rather than pay the tax imposed by the king.<br /><br />But if you chose, you could write the Alice in Wonderland Boston Tea Party, for which the rabbit was very late and the Mad Hatter couldn't stay awake...or whoever it was that kept falling asleep....<br /><br />Cuz you are right. There was a Tea Party in Alice, altho not really the Boston Tea Party, but that's no reason not to make it so in your own story.<br /><br />And the contemporary example is the so-called Tea Parties held just in the last week by members of the Murrican Republican Party, which were about as Alice-in-Wonderlandish as you can get...Larry Keilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-2025302258267842012009-04-15T09:58:00.000-04:002009-04-15T09:58:00.000-04:00How anyone can handel a seven hundred page book ab...How anyone can handel a seven hundred page book about politics is a mystery to me. Oliver Cromwell. You know that name calls up bad feelings. Not because I know his story. Not because he was one of my uncles I disliked. But as a kid I heard him spoken about in adult conversations and the tone of those conversations definitely turned me off. He a bad man. He no good, I sensed.<br /><br />I saw the Boston Tea Party mentioned in connection with "Old Crommy, (Crummy?" and grew curious. Heard it mentioned often enough. Never knew what it was about. So it was between the British and the American Loalists, and about taxes on tea. Man, the things people fight about. I bet the ladies that held 'pinky up' tea parties never thought about that. They probably just wondered why the price of tea had gone up so much.<br /><br />Is there a "Boston Tea Party" in "Alice in Wonderland?" or am I confusing things? It wouldn't be such a surprize because I think many political situations found there way in children's stories and even nursery rhymes.wild thingnoreply@blogger.com