FALSTAFF ON THE STONE TABLE

"I recall telling (Anthony) Burgess that for me the essence of Falstaffianism was: do not moralize. Computing Falstaff's flaws is trivial: he bulges with them." - Falstaff: Give Me Life - Harold Bloom

As the beyond hysterical British media continues its clamorous calls for Boris Johnson's blond mane, I'm reminded of that famous scene in Chapter 15 of C.S. Lewis's The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe when Aslan, King of Narnia, is tied down to the stone table by all the ghastly creatures of the night assembled by the White Witch and promptly shorn of all his fur.

Perhaps the anti-Johnson forces won't be truly happy until they've shaved off all of the Prime Minister's bog brush hair and left him as bald as a coot. I've no doubt that if Prince Hal were in charge of Boris's fate, the fat fool would be sent immediately to Fleet prison until he demonstrably changed his ways.

Whatever the British media's nefarious intentions are, as they laughably pretend to be enforcers of morality, it should be briefly mentioned that we are now, since midnight, the freest country in Europe, and I for one, might even raise a glass to that.

Happy Freedom Day!

Digital Renegade

27th Jan 2022