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Dec. 12th, 2003 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanI've started writing posts about three times and deleted them... I'm tired, depressed, and have little to say at present: caught between feeling lonely and feeling antisocial. Whichever way I go this evening I suspect it will end with feeling drunk...
To entertain myself, I've been reading the final draft of the proposed EU Constitution (it's an odd use of entertain, but my own). As some of you know, I am fairly sceptical about the Europe we have, though not about the idea of Europe... but in any event this is illiterate and incomprehensible bollocks. Particularly the preamble, which was discussed on Today this morning. "We the people" it surely ain't. And, as Peter Jones pointed out, the rather pompous quotation from Thucydides is mistranslated, or at best very loosely translated, at least in the English edition.
Then it starts talking about "re-united Europe". When, pray, was "Europe" last united? (No, not the Roman Empire, which didn't extend to most of Germany for a start.)
Ho hum.
To entertain myself, I've been reading the final draft of the proposed EU Constitution (it's an odd use of entertain, but my own). As some of you know, I am fairly sceptical about the Europe we have, though not about the idea of Europe... but in any event this is illiterate and incomprehensible bollocks. Particularly the preamble, which was discussed on Today this morning. "We the people" it surely ain't. And, as Peter Jones pointed out, the rather pompous quotation from Thucydides is mistranslated, or at best very loosely translated, at least in the English edition.
Then it starts talking about "re-united Europe". When, pray, was "Europe" last united? (No, not the Roman Empire, which didn't extend to most of Germany for a start.)
Ho hum.
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