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Subject: Re: OT SF Mythology
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:55:39 -0700
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:59:02 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
<mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:39:47 +1200, Titus G wrote:
>
>> Durandal a sword said to be indestructible, the sharpest of all =
blades,
>> once wielded by the knight Roland under Charlemagne, and thenceforth
>> stuck in stone for 1,300 years, has disappeared from a French village.
>>=20
>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-excalibur-like-sword-durandal-
>disappears-after-1300-years/
>
>This seems to be the Year of France. The Olympics, the completion
>of repairs to Notre Dame (scheduled for December), the snap election
>which my favorite newspapers are telling me is Very Important, etc.
>Qu'est-ce que tu as d'autre ? (What else ya' got?)

It'll be interesting to see how the winner-takes-all Parliamentary
system copes with a situation in neither the Left, the Right, nor the
Center has control. No winner, no gummint?

Perhaps another snap election? Perhaps this will the start of the
Decade of Snap Elections, kind of like the periods where the Romans
went through 10 or so Emperors in two years or so, at least in terms
of social stability.

=46rom what I have read, the evil Right was only defeated by many
self-sacrificing candidates withdrawing so as to concentrate the
anti-Right vote on whoever else was on the ballot. Sounds like
cheating to me, but then, I am not French and so not aware of how they
regard it.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"