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The word was “consequentiality” until wee Al got to it. Maybe there is a way to edit it but it’s not obvious to me.

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So; America no Greyfriars reference. Not in their weltaanschaaung ( oh really Al ? No problem? No fix? It’s misspelled you know - no?) Salman Rushdie said Harry Ram Singh was an influence on him but no Amerikan writer ever referenced Bunter. I fear that the American Cultural Hegemony has erased Bunter here as well. What Super Hero has ever uttered useful phrases like “I’m expecting a postal order” or “I say you chaps it wasn’t me who stole the cream buns!” - which inoculated us against the shabby lies and pretensions of fools like Donald Trump, the toad of the remove. In fact, we need to make sure our kids know about Bunter and Mr Toad and Svengali and Goebels before they get swept up in schemes diabolical. The Amerikan canon has only Pinocchio to warn their kids and the carpet baggers in that tale are not clearly enough defined. I really do think moral corruption begins in popular Kultur - “24” enabled Abu Graib, for example. The consequentially is terrific!

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