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2019-09-16 Britain

Our democracy is being overthrown by the EU's Hideous Strength

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3) by C.S.Lewis

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns.

The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-09-16 06:58|| 2019-09-16 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't like how the vote turned out? Just call for another vote!

Posted by jpal 2019-09-16 10:31|| 2019-09-16 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, that democracy! I thought it was about the real democracy.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2019-09-16 11:27|| 2019-09-16 11:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The referendum is now being apologized for, by the likes of Cameron. The idea being aired is - it should never have been given to the people to decide in the first place. With Corby saying it should be annulled in light of the 'long term interests' of the UK.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-16 11:35|| 2019-09-16 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh man!
Now Ah'm going to have to read that again.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-16 12:24|| 2019-09-16 12:24|| Front Page Top

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