“Can we go on bowing and curtseying to people who are just like ourselves?
We begin to wish that the Zoo should be abolished; that the royal animals should be given the run of some wider pasturage – a royal Whipsnade.
Will the British Empire survive? Will Buckingham Palace look as solid in 2034 as it does now?
Words are dangerous things remember.
A Republic might be brought into being by a poem”
- Virginia Woolf in Time and Tide,1st December 1934 (emphasis added)
The video presentation of Heathcote Williams' chillingly eye-opening poem
Royal Babylon, and its preface by the above quotation, are from http://www.royalbabylon.com/Site/Royal_Babylon.html
Royal Babylon, and its preface by the above quotation, are from http://www.royalbabylon.com/Site/Royal_Babylon.html
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