Bards -Good Crowns

Kevinkeary at aol.com Kevinkeary at aol.com
Sun Jan 30 21:26:02 PST 2000


Duchess Willow declares:

<< A good Crown doesn't let our peers appear petty or knights appear as 
anything but heroic. >>

Your Grace, I find myself in agreement with NEARLY everything in your letter, 
save this statement.  If we are to make the Society History "not as it was 
but as it ought to be"  it does indeed mean that "we are creating a world 
based on the dreams of yesterday."  But if the world we create does not live 
up to those ideals, in reality as well as in appearance, then we fall short.  
And if we cover up rather than correct, we fail.  When any of us cover 
villainy, we condone it.  If we are to succeed, error must be corrected, and 
sometimes that cannot be done without exposure.  This sort of thing carried 
to the extreme--an extreme beyond what I'm sure you were considering--has 
allowed a man in another kingdom to continue as a knight, the purported 
champion of the weak, the fair sex, and chivalry, after hospitalizing three 
wives in succession--one of them his queen.
As you say, "the most important thing a crown does is make people believe in 
the Kingdom. This is also the hardest."  The Kingdom, any kingdom, if it 
represents "the ideals of the middle ages", especially those of the period of 
High Chivalry, must include Justice in that model.  This will not detract 
from the image we create, as smoothing petty squabbles and occasional fits of 
temper does not, it in fact makes it more real than imperfectly hiding true 
perfidy does.

Kevin
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