Monday, June 4, 2012
Whacky War Witches
Someone really ought to do something about those whacky screeching war witches but I have no idea what that would be or who would do it. It is really not my place to do it. Yes, it is no secret that the Imperial War Museum in the UK is located at the site of the original Bedlam insane asylum, an appropriate setting perhaps for the war witches' interest. No one will be arguing against that point and no reason for me to say anything else about that. The drama of "Mother Courage" was on our high school reading list in Spanish Lit class but I never saw it staged nor do I much care to expend much energy revisiting the Thirty Years War. Europeans are so whacky weird sometimes. They might be surprised to learn how little interest we Americans have in experiencing their bizarre centuries-old web of intrigues. That's why our ancestors came here in the first place, to get away from all that. We really don't much care about the intricacies of Central European politics to be bluntly honest about it.