Thus spake Jim Higson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stonehenge sucks!
No, the presentation, the limitation of access, suck. Stonehenge itself is a truly strange monument - try sleeping overnight in the back of your car within sight of it, as I once did.
I have. Well, not in a car, but I don't think internal combusion was the missing
ingredent. I suppose I'm just not superstitious/spirtual/whatever. Other than
the feat of building it I found it about as 'strange' as any other pile of stones.
I'd rather visit the nearby Salisbury cathedral anyday. Now that's spectacular.
Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters or so from the stones, which have mostly fallen doen anyway.
Well the stones which have fallen "doen" did so a long time ago. AFAIK there have been no stones falling since Stonehenge became a tourist attraction.
Ok, it doesn't really matter to me when they fell down, it's still prettty underwhelming. I don't mean to say that I'm not interested in my history, but when it's this plain I'm happy to read about it in books.
Maybe I just don't get it.
My major beef is the way that they allow the "Druids" (virutually nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in Caesar) to prance about there on midsummer's morning.
Firstly the real Druids did *not* build Stonehenge and secondly the rpesent-day druids were founded in the 18th (?) century by John Aubrey (he of Brief Lives fame) who surveyed Stonehenge and after whom the Aubrey holes are named.
These present day idiots in their KKK-style outfits have no more right to special treatment at Stonehenge than does Bugs Bunny. Actually rather less.
Ok, but I don't think they have any less right than you or I.
-- Jim Higson
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