| Woman in Queenly Spainish Garb: What to do about Columbus- that is what concerns us most. ferdinand is a bitch, we don't need Aragon. columbus is the thing... Oh, not that he'll reach India, for India lies east, not west as every school child knows. But a new world may well lie west and if it does you can bet that fat idiot will find it! Never sailed before in his life, you know. No knowledge at all of navigation. In fact, terrified of the sea. Well. That is the sort that's dangerous. "Land ho!" we can hear him cry, his boat run aground in the night (and most likely on some lovely, palm sheltered beach). "Land ho..." "Um Captain,"says his first mate softly, "I think it would be best to repair our ship." In the morning, Columbus decends to see just what he has run into, finds four hundred bare-brested maidens drinking coconut milk, and cries, "Curse my luck! This isn't India!" . . . Yes. Curse his luck. a new world found. A new world for us to deal with. and, oh my god, here we are Queen of Spain and not yet figured out what to do with this one. |
