How boring are those curling stones matches at the winter olympic ?

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

I was deliberately confusing romantic with romanticism. Sorry, thought that was obvious

Hence the Woody Allen reference.....

Sorry, I didn't get the Woody Allen ref. Don't really watch any films. I'll have to go back to look to see if it makes sense to me.

It's just if you don't know your history, most people wouldn't understand why the US Rev of 1775-1783 is the height of the Enlightenment but nothing to do with Romanticism, while the Fr Rev of 1789 is also the pinnacle of the Enlightenment as well as the birth of Romanticism.

It's why Stendhal in his {post-Waterloo} Life of Napoleon {written in response to Mme de Stael's book attacking Boney} says that his excuse for Boney reintroducing slavery is that he was the epitome of "the second age" {the Enlightenment - Andrew Roberts described Boney as The Enlightenment on Horseback} while the Rev gave birth to the "third age" - Romanticism.