Robin Hobb Quotes
You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
Hobb, Robin. Royal Assassin. Bantam Spectra, 1996.
The statement was made in the midst of the Cold War. There was a political battle ongoing over a national park in Wyoming. In the 1930s & 1940s John D. Rockefeller Jr. had tried to give his 33,000 acres of land adjacent to the Grand Teton National Park to the Federal Government as a park expansion. Residents of Wyoming at the time did not want the land to go to park use but wanted it available for commercial development & in a paranoid concern about the Federal Government controlling “their land,” Wyoming politicians blocked transfer. Finally Rockefeller wrote FDR telling him to take the land or he would sell it. The President did not have power to accept land to form a national park without Congressional action. So FDR did what his cousin TR had done and declared the land a national monument which transferred ownership to the government. Then Albright
tried to incorporate it into the park system & fought for years with the special interests and politicians of Wyoming.
Barstow the Democratic Governor who had no serious opposition in 1853 found himself challenged for reelection by Coles Bashford of the new Republican Party. The Board of Canvassers reported that Governor Barstow had won reelection but by less than 200 votes in the whole state. The Republicans charged that there had been fraud in some of the rural districts and petitioned the Wisconsin Supreme Court which ruled that nonexistent precincts had indeed voted for the Governor. Barstow however refused to recognize the decisions of the court claiming that the court had no jurisdiction over the Board of Canvassers who were part of the executive branch. The Republicans held their own inauguration and two men claimed to be Governor. But the Governor claimed that the state constitution did not give the court any authority to deal with the crisis, He even called out the State Militia to maintain his office and intimidate the Supreme Court and keep the “other governor” from the state house. Nonetheless the court ruled that even the Governor had to obey the law and the Supreme Court would determine what the law was. Barstow finally “resigned.” See {587915} & {587917}.
Germany was the enemy but the allies were fighting with each other over the treaty negotiations. David Lloyd George was the Prime Minister of England who was negotiating for that country.
Shortly after, he backed off the notion of having a bloodbath removing protesting students.
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, better known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, is an American writer. She has written five series set in the Realm of the Elderlings, which started in 1995 with the publication of Assassin's Apprentice and ended with Assassin's Fate in 2017. Her books have sold over a million copies.
