Remember, remember

. . . I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

But I did forget the Fifth of November completely, until I happened to be working on some Gutenberg pages this morning from a history of the period. It's an extremely condensed history, jumping from a rapid description of John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Jamestown Colony to a quick note on Guido Fawkes. I'd never before associated the two events with the same decade. The smiling zeal to destroy impure societies rings a bell this week.