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[fuchsoid]

In a pathetic attempt to make up for having lain about the house torpidly for the last two weeks, I decided to go out somewhere improving and non-course-related today, and picked the Colour after Klein exhibition at the Barbican. As the bus passed Old Street tube station I noticed that it had been closed off, and further down, so was Moorgate. By

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[jonquil]

You're making this American feel so deprived.

Tradition? What's that? I think we had Halloween as far back as the thirties...

[fuchsoid]

The nice thing about tradition is that it doesn't really take very long for an ancient pagan tradition to become established. Stations of the Sun, A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, by Ronald Hutton, traces most of the "ancient" customs, like morris men and 'osses, back to about the sixteenth century, when most of the older customs seem to have been devised by young farm labourers to extort money for drink, but that doesn't matter. They are all ancient and powerful now.

[franzeska]

Hey, what better reason could there be than booze?