A Second Attempt

I actually might have picked up a little something this time around with the reading. My entire last blog was over how I couldn't understand any of it, so this should be a little bit of an improvement.

At this point, I don't like Hank much anymore. Here's the problem... On one hand, he tries to act as if he wants to make a difference, that he's disgusted by how things are done in the sixth century.

"To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags -- that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy..." [65]

There you go. He obviously doesn't like it. And he makes these kind of similar statements throughout the entire thing. However, he still seems arrogant to me. Like the whole episode about the fountain in the Valley of Holiness or whatever it's called -- going out of his way to make a big show of it (kind of like the nobility about everything, cough cough) and humiliate Merlin. He takes advantage of the common people and the monks by degrading what they consider to be the cornerstone of their lives -- the Church -- into something that's fixable by plugging up a leak. Doesn't bother to explain it to them really, either. Then he goes on with all the fireworks... I don't know, but I just don't like him. Here he is, saying how he wants to make a difference, but then he still associates largely with the nobility and makes an effort to appease them, goes about spending all that money for dinner to humiliate Dowley... I mean, come on. Hypocrite. He even says at the beginning that he has a leg up on everyone else because he's more educated... I don't know how many times it's seemed like he's looked down on people when he finds out they can't read. I feel like I'm ranting, but I just want to say -- who does he think he is?!