Posted on 07/28/2012 11:12:05 AM PDT by Mozilla
1-—OK, Lennon and Macca are ‘just’ (great) pop music talents, but why shouldnt we celebrate Darwin?.
I am immensely proud, being British, that the great man is on our banknotes, taught to our pupils, and is revered by most British people as a genius, great man and a national hero/treasure.
And Jane Austin helped change the face of literature. Why the objection to a great writer?.
2—The whole point was to take the people watching from the era just before the IR, through the IR, past the world wars, to modern day UK, which is where the texting/film clip/pop montage came in.
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