On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > how about if the Greeks let England keep the so-called "Elgin" marbles > in exchange for England paying off all of Greece's excess debt?
I don't think so. When I visited the "Elgin" marbles in the British Museum in London, it seemed to me that the majority of the conversation around me was in Greek. I would not underestimate the degree to which many Greeks find this continuing theft of their cultural patrimony profoundly irritating. Christopher Hitchens wrote a nice little book about this before he went over to the dark side. There is a copy of Hitchens' book in the library of the British Museum; reading it is a great complement to the exhibit. > or why > not just repudiate that debt? > > 2010/3/4 Sabri Oncu <[email protected]>: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8549793.stm > > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
