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- From: sinister@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Fighting in crown: a thought & another thought
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.155557.9738@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:55:57 -0400
- References: <1992Dec22.033438.24728@news.unomaha.edu>
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- In article <1992Dec22.033438.24728@news.unomaha.edu>, dburgdor@cwis.unomaha.edu (Darryl Burgdorf) writes:
- > .......... And I will freely agree that someone
- > who fights in a Crown Tournament *only* for the sake of the glory of the
- > tournament itself is probably missing the whole point.
- >
- > But please explain the difference between someone who fights to put himself
- > and his inspiration on the throne and someone who fights to put the *couple*
- > who inspire him on the throne. The latter may well be a gentle who has no
- > aspirations to power, or simply someone who feels those for whom he fights
- > are more suited to it than he is himself; in either case, though, he is
- > still fighting for someone, and is still fighting with the intention of
- > winning, because of the inspiration of those for whom he fights.
-
- My observation is that, in fact, the noble fighter who enters the list
- to put the Crown on the heads of a couple who inspire him as opposed to
- another gentle and their own might be a bit closer to "the point". They are
- fighting completely for the honor and glory of the couple, with zero
- benifit to themselves.
-
- > In service to Calontir, the Society, and the Dream,
- >
- > Ld Elwyn of Thornbury
- >
-
- In Faith and Service this festive season,
- Cosmano Piero Michelotto da Roma
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