A question to and answer from Rabih Alameddine, in "Rabih Alameddine Is Done With Dostoyevsky/Then: His favorite writer. Now: 'So earnest, so didactic, so humorless.' His own new novel is 'The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)'" (NYT).
Speaking of wanting to be considered an entire country, I also liked "My queen-size bed is divided into quadrants; I sleep in one, my two cats get one each, and one is for books."
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Huckleberry Finn.
Transgender with two pussies galore on a queen-sized raft and a bigendered affection. Lose the raft, forego the king, and follow the general principle of marrying the queen and serve her with a gay affection.
"Husband, I come!"
"Now we have to ask what it is, as represented within their private passion for one another, he asks of Cleopatra and that she grants, of such a character that it represents the existence of a world for him and his existence in it, after all. To this question an obvious answer is that he asks for her satisfaction by him, the totality of it, and she, if she chooses, may convince him of it, endow him with it, show it, acknowledge it, consent."
Stanley Cavell "Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare" p.31
Emily Blunt in some romcom, "Did you just fake an orgasm?"
Hegel says that with the birth of Christianity a new subjectivity enters the world. I want to say that with the birth of skepticism, hence of modern philosophy, a new intimacy, or wish for it, enters the world, call it privacy shared (not shared with the public but from it). I suppose this is registered, among other places, in the history of marriage, in the shift from politically arranged to romantically desired marriage. Here is a reasonable opening way to consider what is enacted in Antony and Cleopatry in the shift from Rome to Egypt... p.21
cleopatra, was not fictional, one suspects the way she was portrayed in plutarch, a favorite court historian was though,
Really. She wants a hero that DIES for her, after he proclaims her an entire nation (aka the center of the universe)?
Geez, she sounds like the type that is not even willing to pay for his Uber when she boots him out after sex.
Hector, prince of Troy, George Smiley.
Anthony didn't "die" for Cleopatra.
He died for control of the richest most influencial province in the Roman Republic.
Whomever controlled Aegypt controlled the food supply. Whomever controlled the food supply controled the Legions.
Whomever controlled the Legions controlled the Republic.
Anthony would have gladly married and fucked a calydonian boar with scrofula and herpes if it meant he could control Aegypt.
My queen-size bed is divided into quadrants; I sleep in one, my two cats get one each, and one is for books.
This guy isn't a problem-solver. Get a double bed with a headboard and end tables with storage.
Cats are always licking themselves, so there is slobber all over the bedding and the books. He doesn't sound like the type to make his bed or move the books so he can launder his sheets.
Do authors pay for an NYT profile like this?
Amazon has him ranked at 1,207,990 in books, and his best ranking is 913 in the Censorship and Politics category.
I just read that conquering Eygpt was an economic boon to Rome. Augustus was able to pay off all his soldiers and had plenty of loot to spread around. Thereafter, the Nile valley was the breadbasket of Rome.
When I think of Cleopatra I think of Liz Taylor. She didn't quite fit the part, but its hard to think of who they could've cast back in 1962 that woulda been better.
I’ve always wanted a lover who would consider me an entire country.
If people keep getting bigger, we're not far off.
well the Chemistry angle played into the casting, with Rex Harrison certainly being the third wheel
This sounds like a book I might read but I couldn't find the Amazon link on your site.
https://www.amazon.com/True-Story-Raja-Gullible-Mother/dp/0802166474/ref=sr_1_4?
If you mean Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say is a good first book, and its analysis of Lear. The Claim of Reason goes full Wittgenstein with lots of side avenues. There's a book on Thoreau, and one called The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism about Emerson, A Doll's House, The Marquise of O. Many others but those are the ones I use.
Hollywood ought to consider a movie about a writer who pretends to be gay because it's the only way his books will get published. Sort of a Tom Hanks "Bosom Buddies" thing. Maybe trans would be even better. The Arab thing is a nice touch too.
Alameddin ought to take up the discussion with gay icon Lytton Strachey who called Dostoevsky "a Russian humorist." Looking for that article, I find this online: "There is no doubt about the fact that Dostoevsky was the Russian writer who mostly inspired Virginia Woolf." The one Virginia Woolf novel I would actually like reading would be her version of "Crime and Punishment."
Elizabeth Taylor made a very plausible Macedonian/Greek.
Maybe a bit too pretty for the role, but thats Hollywood.
Randomizer said...
"Do authors pay for an NYT profile like this?"
When you read anything in the NYT or similar outlets, always ask, "How did this article come to be? Who commissioned it, and why?"
Cleopatra whored herself out, repeatedly, to maintain her grasp on power.
Boudicca, Zenobia, Joan of Arc, Artemisa, Æthelflæd, and Tomyris land armies, and navies into battle.
"I desperately wished for a gorgeous general who was willing to die for me and say, as he’s dying, 'I am dying, Egypt, dying.' I’ve always wanted a lover who would consider me an entire country."
Maybe pick a better general, though.
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