VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Rev Dr Michael Banner, Dean and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130627.html][img=images/2013/06/pic130627.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Money. It's a rather vulgar thing, isn't it? One doesn't really like to talk about it. It's the kind of thing that the great unwashed masses tend to talk about and we certainly wouldn't want to look like one of those, would we?

Personally, I like to wash my hands after having to handle the stuff. Using money seems to be one of those tedious necessities. Ideally, there would be a little man from the village to look after such things. Like the Queen, who has just had a [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23065599]5% pay increase[/url], I would prefer not to carry the stuff at all. 

There's talk that Jane Austen might soon grace the £10 note. Naturally, Jane Austen does not debase her novels by mentioning anything as tawdry as dosh. Cultured people, those of a certain class, simply do not concern themselves with such trifles. They are, properly, more concerned with their position in society, judging people by their true worth and not on their vast reserves of cash.

It's necessary to mention the Big Book of Magic Stuff. It too has a suitable contempt for money, with Tyndale describing it as [url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lucre]filthy lucre[/url]. 

Should Jane Austen ever be forced to appear on anything as uncouth as a bank note, I think her smile, should she choose to smile, will be a smile of irony, should she choose to be ironic. As a person of some refinement, she would undoubtedly, should she choose to do it undoubtedly, consider how very commonplace she was made to appear.

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