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- From: nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca (Aryk Nusbacher)
- Subject: Re: Fighting in crown: a thought
- Organization: University of Toronto - Office of the Provost
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:33:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.002010.19457@ips.oz.au> colin@ips.oz.au (Colin Yuile) writes:
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- >Allowing non fighters to become royalty won't stop dumb decisions,
-
- True.
-
- >but should allow better informed decisions in non fighting areas.
-
- Why? Is there a difference in species between those who swing sticks
- and those who don't? Are top-class fighters generally uninformed about
- SCA life outside the lists? Sure, there are real sword-jocks who are
- out of touch with the rest of the SCA, but there's surely a comparable
- risk of over-focussing with _anybody_. For every geek who can't see
- past the end of his stick, there is a geek who can't see past a
- spinning wheel, a sewing machine, or a copy of Papworth.
-
- >The majority of monarchs would still be fighters, with the occasional
- >non fighting couple adding a bit of variety. I think fighting for
- >a couple would be extremely chivalric and a nice change from
- >Thung Superjock fighting for his current girlfriend Flossy.
-
- Extremely chivalric? Do you mean based on the historical reality of
- knights in the Middle Ages entering a tournament list on behalf of a
- couple? Or perhaps those great chivalric romances about knights
- championing couples?
-
- Thung Superjock fighting for Flossy _is_ the stuff of chivalric
- legend. It's what mediaeval knights understood chivalry to be.
- Giving them amusing names doesn't affect that.
-
- Aryk Nusbacher
-