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To: Robert C. Petersen who wrote (3643)4/8/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: nihil  Respond to of 13018
 
Though I walk with fifty housemaids,
Out of Chelsea to the Strand,
And they talk a lot of loving,
But what do they understand?

Beefy face and grubby hand,
Law, what do they understand
I've a cleaner, sweeter maiden,
In a cleaner, greener land. (FM)

R. Kipling, (Mandalay. I think he was a romantic, far ahead of his time with respect to the treatment of women and other races, with real sympathy for the working classes (enlisted soldiers) of every country, with real contempt for the exploitation of imperialism, and sympathy for the victims and enforcers of colonialism. Anyone who can find racism in Gunga Din, Kim, White Man's Burden, or Recessional had better read again.