Friday, 18 November 2016

Moral limits, village life, community life, Canada, Africa, Australia, dreamy country villages,  I've been asked how I came to include Mrs Boniface in Welcome to Oakhaven. I had always been fascinated by people like Mrs Boniface, people who maintain the morals and general intellectual level of a community. People complain about them, laugh at them, even ridicule them, but they are part of the fabric of a living village community. They are, in a way, the limit of the village's tolerance, the limit to which a person can go in trying to dominate others. The rest of the community understand they must stop short of that limit if they wish to be included. It's like a town drunk, nobody challenges for the job, he sets the limit. There are other examples, even in corporate offices and undertakings, I've seen them in Canada, in Africa, in Australia and even in dreamy country villages in Britain.

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