A Blount remark

Damien Broderick · 03 Jun 1998, 10:26 · from urth-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Damien Broderick <damien at ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
Subject: (urth) A Blount remark
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 10:26:32 +0000
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I raised the matter of Blount and Australia with my learned friend John
Bangsund <bangsund at pipeline.com.au>
who scoured his CD-ROMss, his reference library and his commodious mind for
possible clews.  He found this:

>Edward Blount was a relatively unimportant person (as far as
>Australia was concerned) in the Colonial Office in the
>1830s. He was in favor of [*gasp*] Catholic Emancipation.

A bias, no doubt, sure to gain favor among people named Gene Wolfe, but
otherwise perhaps not all that salient to *Fifth Head*.

Damien Broderick

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