Posted by LaurenceMonkhouse on April 11, 2007 at 16:42:42 from 82.27.28.151 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: 'Should etc etc etc?? posted by Peter Hyland on April 11, 2007 at 16:04:39:
I didn't post anything to be kind.
It was simply that having just that day driven from the furthest end of the Lake District to Lowestoft, listening to SA most of the way, and then read Peter's posting, it did seem to me that the ethics of the Swallows have a lot to commend them.
I also said that such standards were hard to achieve and that from the evidence of the books themselves they were no more universally held in the 30s than today.
Surely there is a case for books to inspire by setting an impossibly high standard. Just as so in the same way many well loved stories are about Princes and Princesses who 'Live happily ever after' when we know perfectly well that the very last thing we would like to be is a prince or a princess and that such often don't live very happily ever after.
Anyway the other moral framework in the books is the placing of sailing on a pedestal - that at least I have been able to subscribe to with all my heart.