this used to be called Headcannons

crack e-mails (again again)

I came up with this one:

YOU KNOW TEHRE WAS THIS OE TIEM WHERE THSI DUD E WAS FLYIGN INA PLANE BUT THE PLANE CRASHED AND DONALD TRUMP FLEW OUT AND EXPLODED ENGLAND AND THEN TEH BANANAS DECLARED WW3 AGAINST TEH SMILY POPELE AND THEN HOOMANS DIED BC TEH POTATOES KILLED TEHM ALL AND THERE WAS THIS DUDE CALLED KING GEORGE AND HE SURVED AND KILLED EVERYONE

yes, my typing and spelling, as well as concentration skills are legendary.

Queen rice consumption

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that where the e-mail ends

... so my best friends farther sent her a newspaper article-

"To concede nothing to those who would erase the past because it does not suit their image of the present." That was the purpose of the speech France's President, Emmanuel Macron, delivered last week to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte.

At barely four pages, the speech is short, balanced and measured. But coming after a sustained onslaught on Napoleon's legacy by the French equivalent of the Black Lives Matter movement, it is perhaps the finest rebuttal of the current attacks on historical truth delivered by a Western leader.

Macron's goal, as he addressed an audience of secondary school students amid the architectural grandeur of the Institut de France, was not to gloss over the complexities of a historical figure he evocatively described as "both eagle and ogre". On the contrary, as well as explaining Napoleon's soaring achievements, the President highlighted the appalling errors the "Little Corporal" had made, and their tragic cost in human life.

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What stood out, however, was not the details of that carefully crafted assessment; it was the object lesson on the importance of truth in history. "You are not responsible for France's past," Macron told the students, "nor are you its guardians."

The statue of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Academie Francaise.

"It comes to you as an inheritance, without a testament attached," he went on to say, using a phrase every French student would recognise as a quotation from the poet and resistance hero, Rene Char. "You may choose to love it; and so too you may choose to criticise it."

"But first of all" — and here he paused for emphasis — "you must learn it": which means "facing it directly and as a whole", imbued "with a love of knowledge" and "resisting the temptation to judge yesterday by today". That is the foremost duty "a free people" owes its ancestors who secured the freedoms it enjoys — but it is also a free people's greatest privilege, because it is only by "understanding its past" that it can freely "forge its future". And just as those who shred their map are condemned to lose their way, so those who abandon historical truth are condemned to forsake their liberty.

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Whether Macron's young audience grasped the significance of his words no one can say. But they would surely resonate in China, where — under regulations extended just a few weeks ago to Hong Kong — any mention in a classroom of the horrors of the Great Leap Forward or of the Cultural Revolution is severely punished. Nor would their meaning be lost on students in Turkey, as the Erdogan regime's ongoing "reform" of the history curriculum slowly but surely removes all references to the secular, modernising principles of Kemal Ataturk, while portraying the country's difficulties as the result of an incessant struggle against "infidels" and "crusaders".