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When this movie is said and done, I will miss you Martin so much. I want to thank yu personally for being my sanity, my magical wand directing the mysterious spells that kept me safe in a world gone completely insane. The politician and law stuff aside, your light shined for me on your deeply personal interpretations of your home and country. I love this article, for example, because of how it relates to Harry Potter, Hogwarts and the differing factions (Gryffindor, Slithering, etc.) and the professors names like "Mugglelworth" or such and the differing agendas you described in pictorial form and creative prose. Oxford sounds like Hogwarts and to me as an American, even looks like it. See you have provided me with laughter and I need that so much right now after a long hard journey myself, (700 miles is a great distance to travel). Love you and perhaps we will meet on the other side of this and I can walk at least for a short distance as you photograph history, that will entertain and delight and enlighten generations to come, Sharon

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That's a sobering essay. There was a time when universities were fractious. I find it terribly depressing that consensus and conformity reign at one of the oldest and most venerable universities in the world. It doesn't bode well for the future. Instead of swallowing the lie of 'progress' some serious analysis of cultural and intellectual losses needs to be considered. Sometimes it feels like we are in the year 600 and only a few isolated bishoprics are keeping the lights on while outside chaos rules.

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