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Crossword 250: Ring of Ire

Lord Frederic Leighton, The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Bodies of Romeo and Juliet
Lord Frederic Leighton, The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Bodies of Romeo and Juliet

Many people enjoy belonging to a group bound by a sense of grievance so that they can rage happily together, usually against some other similarly bound group that can rage in turn back at them.  This is fun in itself; it can also lead to solid personal gain, as one’s route to success is eased by one’s fellow enragees, who form a sort of mutually-supportive grievance collective, or ring of ire.  We here at David Alfred Bywaters’s Crossword Cavalcade and Weekly Victorian Novel Recommender belong to no such ring; we’re happy with everybody and everything in this fortunate world, including other people and their rage, to which we here pay a small tribute.

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