Excerpt from the Diary of Frank of Albany
Today I was thinking about the British Empire and how enormous and haphazardous it was. What did Rhodisia and Canada and India have in common? Then I remembered the whole thing between England and France and how much England really just wanted some land on the continent of Europe. I'm pretty sure that most the Empire can be accounted for somewhere in that. Maybe everytime the British landed somewhere they were confused and disappointed that it wasn't France, since that was the only place they landed for thousands of years before that, and the following confusion of historical emotions and genetic memory served to create and ill-advised and ridiculous conquest. It reminds me a lot of my relationships, obviously.