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LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

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I unhooked my radio the other night and the word REVOLUTION came<br />

floatin’ over the ambient air. Very English voice, usin’ the word RE VO<br />

LU TION.<br />

And I thought, yaaas, very nice but HOW’ ? How CAN they revolute.<br />

Conjure up to my mind the pale grey light in Kensington Gardens, and<br />

the gulls floatin’ over the round pond, and the so very quiet demeanor of<br />

the nicely dressed females that used to float up the broadwalk, along<br />

about 1910. How CAN THEY revolute?<br />

Yaas, I hear Bela Kun was over in England, he was a revolution, bloody<br />

murder and all the trimmings. But does Kensington revolute?<br />

I am so old I can remember the end of the nineteenth century, that is the<br />

century before this one that is gettin’ on to be nigh half gone. How<br />

impressed the American visitors were by the beef-eaters in the Tower,<br />

and the teacups at Windsor and Stratford-on-Avon, with the coats of<br />

arms glazed into the chimney, and the quiet lawn in the park, and a time<br />

when the Route du Roi wasn’t so rotten. The Row, not of course that I<br />

knew the riders, save occasionally Mr. Cunninghame Graham, a fine<br />

figure on horse back, and ole Colonel Jackson, suggestin’ I should dine<br />

at his club, he wantin’ to see the expressions on the faces of his<br />

contemporaries when faced with the vorticist movement. Well, all that<br />

must be fairly well bygone.<br />

The question is how do folks revolute ? The Rooshians do it with fire<br />

and sword, and very unpleasant tortures. Very unEnglish, as England<br />

used to be in my memory. How DO you revolute?<br />

Can you revolute without contacts, without collaboration, without<br />

COMMUNICATION ? I think not.<br />

Yaas, there is Cripps. He didn’t use to be there so much. In fact my sole<br />

memory of Stafford is secondhand, old Nelly Weaver saying “A

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