Subject: Re: Book on Belgian boundaries, esp. Liege<br/>
Date: Dec 12, 2001 @ 07:49<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1713745960">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Here is a synopsis of a book by Sebastien Dubois, on Belgium&#39;s historical <br/>
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&gt; boundaries. While the abstract is in English<br/>
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&gt; &gt;	How is it possible, for instance, for the modern mind to conceive <br/>
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&gt; &gt;distinctly a travelling political organization, a State without territorial <br/>
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&gt; &gt;boundaries or the need of them, composed of persons, but associated with no <br/>
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&gt; &gt;fixed or certain habitat?<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>whaa<br/>
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it is not only possible to conceive it distinctly but thats a real country i happen to be king of <br/>
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the most serene & fresh gnomedom barbaria<br/>
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maybe dubois just never heard of it<br/>
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possibly too it describes our embryonic everyones land today & until its sovereignty is fully recognized & correctly associated with its territory<br/>
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more recognizably tho it is a fair description of the extraordinary situation the sovereignty of kuwait was in for a while circa 1990 when it showed every sign of having lost its country meaning territory<br/>
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so it is not impossible nor even very hard for the modern mind to conceive distinctly<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; The Reason<br/>
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&gt; &gt;Conclusion :  Smithereens of Europe and maxims of State<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>not only not unreasonable but pithy too<br/>
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