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Brady Nash's avatar

My buddy and I are aligned with the Empire/Language/Shakespeare premise, the quote about language being an army with a dialect, except we push the conversation back to Philip Sidney, older than bacon, more artistically minded, but just as aligned. Both would have been at Oxford and grown up in Cecil household. Walsingham is also part of the intelligentsia scene, whose daughter married Sidney. Look up Sidney's "Aeropagus" secret group, connected with other literatti on the continent. Plus there's no "British empire" without Humphrey Llywd and John Dee, the former who dedicated a history of Wales to Sidney and the latter being his personal tutor and family friend.

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I would have loved if you delved on the misogyny of the Mithras a bit more. It was the premise of the article but I found it was hardly explored. Incredible research, btw.

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