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Thread #121939   Message #2669703
Posted By: theleveller
02-Jul-09 - 10:06 AM
Thread Name: The re-Imagined Village
Subject: RE: The re-Imagined Village
"and for your information those are facts"

Well, I couldn't comment on that as, unlike you, I don't pretend to be an expert on that particular subject. I assume that you have read the England-In-Particular book - or are you, like the literary critic who writes a review of a novel after reading only the first page, basing your opinion purely on your own prejudices and assumptions? If ignorance is bliss, you must be a very happy person. Or perhaps you are also an 'expert' on apples, crinkle crankle walls, power stations, diwali or all the other many subjects covered by the book.

Whether this is your cup of tea or not is, quite frankly, immaterial to me. My purpose was to tell people who may be interested in such things that there is an interesting and ejoyable book that celebrates a real England that is far more interesting and diverse than the stereotypical view put forward by the OP.