As I noted in the overly-discursive Foreword to this stream of re-published newsletters, I found myself using the first-person plural in speaking for The Moonlight— or, the “royal we”, and there’s actually a literary term for that pompous grammatical charade: “pluralis majestatis”. Many kings and queens of olde tymes spoke of themselves not as individuals, but as heads of the state and all its subjects at once, as in “We are not amused”, upon being told an overly ribald tale involving some of those very subjects. A more self-exalted set of royals may have adopted their plural identities as expressing a partnership with the only entity they regarded above them, meaning “God and I”.
Cello Shot Moon
Cello Shot Moon
Cello Shot Moon
As I noted in the overly-discursive Foreword to this stream of re-published newsletters, I found myself using the first-person plural in speaking for The Moonlight— or, the “royal we”, and there’s actually a literary term for that pompous grammatical charade: “pluralis majestatis”. Many kings and queens of olde tymes spoke of themselves not as individuals, but as heads of the state and all its subjects at once, as in “We are not amused”, upon being told an overly ribald tale involving some of those very subjects. A more self-exalted set of royals may have adopted their plural identities as expressing a partnership with the only entity they regarded above them, meaning “God and I”.