Rule Britannia (2020)
Old-Nick: Self
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Old-Nick : It may be better but in real terms, we are not that way: we are upside down! Our eyes filter the way we need to see otherwise our brain will panic as you did! We are all in fact upside down. Our real vision is blurred and more like the vision of a colour blind: again the filters behind our eyes made it all bearable.
Old-Nick : Henry Purcell is probably the greatest British musician and composer that has ever lived. The King Arthur opera is a fantastic masterpiece. I will never be tired of playing or singing the whole opera. A 17th-century composer of a unique form of baroque music: actually elements of very early jazz and rock. He was buried in Westminster Abbey no one can say for sure when he was born. He composed the opera "King Arthur".
Old-Nick : King Arthur was more than a legend, he actually existed in the late 5th century. Rumour has it that he came from Pict -then Scotland- to the Kingdom of Marcia -Wales- when they fought the Irish who came over to England to the loot as the roman armies had left but were still in Gaul / France and had to return briefly as it was chaos.
Old-Nick : They say that the Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot and the Holy grail were added afterwards and in France as the legend was spreading all over Europe. across France stories of the sword of Excalibur spread like wildfires. When King Arthur died in Italy and all over the new roman empire everyone started to talk about England, Britain and this one Kingdom. It may have been added to the British heritage and this is a very interesting point at what point a foreign culture becomes our own?
Old-Nick : Without the Knights of the Round Table who started everything, in Britain there would have been no culture -except Stonehenge- no power and probably no civilisation-.
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Old-Nick : Honi soit qui mal y pense
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Old-Nick : Dieu et mon droit
