Learning from Elders: Chapter 4, Page 25

The Lord Chancellor buys a boy soprano slave with aim of castrating him and giving him to the archbishop for his birthday.

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nemo69 says:

2019/11/30 at 20:13

Wait, What? Who is the present for the archbishop? Balls or no balls? Um. That’s going to take a lot of green screen effects since castrati are outlawed by at least 200 years.
- Wee Jim says:
  
  2019/11/30 at 20:20
  
  Not that long. There’s a recording of the last castrato, made in the 1900s. He was born in 1858 and … operated on, shall we say? … a few years later. He inspired Kingsley Amis’s alternative history The Alteration.
  Is the moustachioed heavy supposed to be a Scotsman in a kilt?
  - Dr. Faustus says:
    
    2019/11/30 at 22:35
    
    Americans of a certain age will recognize him as inspired by G. Gordon Liddy.
    - Galane says:
      
      2019/12/02 at 09:15
      
      One of my favorite Liddy quotes
      “A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.”

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