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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