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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:06:41 +0000, Jane Lumley    
   wrote:   
      
   >I see Philip Pullman has accepted a CBE.   
   >   
   >Is heaven no longer a republic, then?  A monarchy, perhaps?   
   >   
   > don't think Milton or Blake would have done the same.....   
      
   Interesting - was such an honour ever offered to authors children's books of   
   more monarchist leanings, like C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien?   
      
   And if so, did they accept?   
      
   Would it have made them "sirs"?   
      
      
      
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