. GOVELLER’S TRAVELS
into several
REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GOVELLER TO HIS ADVISOR CUMMINGS.
I hope you will be ready to own publicly how you prevailed on me to put in order
into several
REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GOVELLER TO HIS ADVISOR CUMMINGS.
I hope you will be ready to own publicly how you prevailed on me to put in order
a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels. As with my keynote speech at the EdExcel ‘Destination: Star Trek’ last year, several passages I find you have either mislaid or minced in such a manner that I do hardly know my own work. I do not remember I gave you power to
insert any thing about Grayling's young apprentice Gavin Williamson, who I do reverence more than any of human species but in being given only five months to robustly prepare a robust system to robustly secure the already robust chances of a robust few, he had barely enough time
to robustly crush the expectations of the rest, some of whom even now, cling to hopes of our competence. When I formerly hinted something of this you were pleased to answer that you were omnicompetent, so, pray, why did we withdraw the appeals guidance the day after
it was issued, why do the press say 40% of A-Levels were downgraded when in fact 39% were merely standardised, and why haven’t we simply abolished OFQUAL yet? As I was the person responsible for eradicating continuous assessment it was my inclination to say
his A-Level marking system was fair, dependable and credible only as long as it was politically expedient for me; as when I declared for the Brextoration to piss off Cameron, or compared John Hume to a Nazi but declared his passing a cause for national mourning, or defended
your eye quest by saying I tested my own with English Heritage, not the National Trust. Having again made me write a thing that was not, people may come to think of me as a degenerate hypocrite, yet Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland that I was able
with the utmost difficulty to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of Tories; although I freely confess that since my return, some corruptions of my Yahoo nature are revived in me, by an unavoidable
necessity of having to converse with my wife. I find as with all government documents, that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and dates, of my several voyages and the original manuscript is destroyed since publication, so instead of seeing a full stop
put to all corruptions in this little island, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my intentions other than that the hardback laid horizontally, is an excellent surface upon which to rack up lines.
I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious occasion; but I forbear troubling myself or you any further.
August 17th, 1727.
August 17th, 1727.
