2 April 2005

20:51

What amazes me with the flow of grieving masochistic oppressed masses who flock to Rome and every subsidiary in the world is the implication that yes, really, as incredible as the concept always appeared to me, there really were millions of peons crying when a king died. (And I’m not talking a Lady Di or a Rainier, but a real, all-powerful, God-sent, tax-imposing old-style king.)