[lit-ideas] Terra Nullius

In a message dated 2/26/2009 1:06:13 P.M.  Eastern Standard Time, 
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:
The best-known story of a dog  'guarding' its master's resting place is 
perhaps that of Greyfriars Bobby, a  Skye Terrier, who stayed (with 
breaks for food, etc.) by the grave of his  master, John Gray,  


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Thanks. I enjoyed that bit,
 
    "In 1867 when it was pointed out that an 
     ownerless dog should be destroyed, 
     the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir 
     William Chambers ... paid for a 
     renewal of Bobby's licence ..."
 
 
There are different justifications for this, I realise, but 'ownerless dog'  
reminds me not of 'feral dog' at all but of 'ownerless land' -- oddly it's 
never  said there, 'destroy it' -- ;-(
 
Now McEvoy should elaborate "Oxbridge fashion" as he _so_ derogatorily puts  
it ("Where the f-c is Corpus Christi" -- the cheek, the moxie) as to the  
distinction between Greyfriars Bobby and Antarctica.
 
Cheers,
 
JL
 
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