Sep 4, 2007 12:34
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Suffering pain and Trafalgar
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12:22 timestamp. I am not sure if Melvyn is saying something about Trafalgar here.
MELVYN BRAGG: And it’s also that transfer to the idea of moral and national character, and character. We go back to Greece and we go back further than the Greece, it’d be manly to endure pain, it’d be-- and that’s very strong in this country, and actually in other countries.
ANNE HARDY: The stiff upper lip, yes. Absolutely.
MELVIN BRAGG: Yes, but ((if)) you get ((the light shot of at)) 12:22 ((Trafalgar, with arm shot,)) and ((endure it)) and so on and so forth. ((Let’s say)) it was all feeding in.
You can listen to the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_2007...
MELVYN BRAGG: And it’s also that transfer to the idea of moral and national character, and character. We go back to Greece and we go back further than the Greece, it’d be manly to endure pain, it’d be-- and that’s very strong in this country, and actually in other countries.
ANNE HARDY: The stiff upper lip, yes. Absolutely.
MELVIN BRAGG: Yes, but ((if)) you get ((the light shot of at)) 12:22 ((Trafalgar, with arm shot,)) and ((endure it)) and so on and so forth. ((Let’s say)) it was all feeding in.
You can listen to the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_2007...
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| 4 | if you get your leg shot off at Trafalgar or your arm, and you endure it |
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| 3 | see ideas below |
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if you get your leg shot off at Trafalgar or your arm, and you endure it
and so and and so forth ... And so it was all feeding in ...
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Note added at 39 mins (2007-09-04 13:13:25 GMT)
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sorry: should be "and so on and so forth..."
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Note added at 39 mins (2007-09-04 13:13:25 GMT)
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sorry: should be "and so on and so forth..."
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see ideas below
Hard to follow without listening to the whole thing and I really haven't got time..
But I read "arm shot OFF" - in other words soldiers at the Battle of Trafalgar who remained stoical and kept on fighting even when one of their arms had been blown/shot off in the battle
The notion is one of STOICISM
But I read "arm shot OFF" - in other words soldiers at the Battle of Trafalgar who remained stoical and kept on fighting even when one of their arms had been blown/shot off in the battle
The notion is one of STOICISM
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