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Chesterton is popular in several non-English speaking countries. He's a big deal in Chile, Argentina, and Italy. Poland too, I think.Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
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enjoy this snippet from her Wikipedia page:Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
Meloni is an avowed fan of fantasy, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which she called a "sacred text". As a youth activist with the Italian Social Movement, she attended "Hobbit Camp" and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello (the Italian translation of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings). Later, she named her political conference Atreju, after the hero of the novel The Neverending Story. The Italian far-right has traditionally associated itself with fantasy, which it considers to share its "vision of spirituality against materialism". She told The New York Times: "I think that Tolkien could say better than we can what conservatives believe in."
I dunno. She regularly tweets anime drawings of herself. I feel that's significant.Del wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 12:59tuttle wrote:pingenjoy this snippet from her Wikipedia page:Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
Meloni is an avowed fan of fantasy, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which she called a "sacred text". As a youth activist with the Italian Social Movement, she attended "Hobbit Camp" and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello (the Italian translation of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings). Later, she named her political conference Atreju, after the hero of the novel The Neverending Story. The Italian far-right has traditionally associated itself with fantasy, which it considers to share its "vision of spirituality against materialism". She told The New York Times: "I think that Tolkien could say better than we can what conservatives believe in."
That might be cool. Find it and post it.Hugo Drax wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 15:09I dunno. She regularly tweets anime drawings of herself. I feel that's significant.Del wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 12:59tuttle wrote:pingenjoy this snippet from her Wikipedia page:Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
Meloni is an avowed fan of fantasy, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which she called a "sacred text". As a youth activist with the Italian Social Movement, she attended "Hobbit Camp" and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello (the Italian translation of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings). Later, she named her political conference Atreju, after the hero of the novel The Neverending Story. The Italian far-right has traditionally associated itself with fantasy, which it considers to share its "vision of spirituality against materialism". She told The New York Times: "I think that Tolkien could say better than we can what conservatives believe in."
.Del wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 15:22That might be cool. Find it and post it.
I'm still scratching my head at "extremist folk band." Wikipedia is not immune to biases in their articles. I think they were trying to translate "progressive folk," but I'm not sure.
Here is their sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDAN0xOTrjY
Nah, that's funny!MrPiper wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 16:19 Sorry, couldn't resist this one! Please delete if inappropriate but it made me spit coffee LOL
That's a dem fine womanDel wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 12:59tuttle wrote:pingenjoy this snippet from her Wikipedia page:Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
Meloni is an avowed fan of fantasy, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which she called a "sacred text". As a youth activist with the Italian Social Movement, she attended "Hobbit Camp" and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello (the Italian translation of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings). Later, she named her political conference Atreju, after the hero of the novel The Neverending Story. The Italian far-right has traditionally associated itself with fantasy, which it considers to share its "vision of spirituality against materialism". She told The New York Times: "I think that Tolkien could say better than we can what conservatives believe in."