Reginicide

One Sunday print, more daring than the rest, placarded the blank walls in the metropolis with pea-green hand-bills, promising an extra sheet, to contain the biography of the supposed assassin of the Queen; to which a rival responded by an advertisement in Gothic characters a foot high, of “Confession of the Assassin.” / If I did not commit reginicide, I was uncommonly near committing felo-de-se!

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Had Edward Oxford been hanged for shooting at Queen Victoria in 1840, his death would have stirred up scores of silly shopboys to regicide (or reginicide), merely from the inscrutable passion for notoriety; for being thought about and talked about—that has much power over man’s vanity.

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Since all the Epimyrma species have already entered a permanently inquiline state, with total dependence on the host workers, it would seem an error to exterminate the host queens, which are, after all, the source of the labor force. However, the Epimyrma habit of reginicide cannot be written off simply as an unfortunate vestige from an earlier time when the Epimyrma ancestors were temporary parasites.

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He is, in any case, extremist enough to have decided to assassinate the Queen, out of frustration with his ‘token life, token education, token job, token family.’ He impresses Percy with his proposal to restore the ‘Ancient Kingdom of Northumbria’ and persuades him to help with the ‘reginicide.’

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