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[petronia]

Someone just gave me a few pistachios from Iran, and they're delicious. Should've taken more. ;_;

Last thought on that Anna Freud thing (sorry for not answering comments but I was honestly more interested in hearing what other people had to say ^^;): marici mentioned Phantom of the Opera as a story in that mold/mode (not foregrounding the m/m aspect). It occurs to me that if I had to name the archetypal(?) myth(?), it would be the framing tale of the Arabian Nights - Scheherazade. Repetitious nature of the infinitely delayed danger and so forth. In most versions Scheherazade went to the King of her own free will.

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If someone could put up an episode or two of Rome for me so I can download them tomorrow? :3 Although at the moment every time someone mentions Octavian or whomever I think of that damnable Ingres in Brussels, and then I start laughing - am I going to have to worry about spoilering Roman history? - it represents a fraught psychological moment between Livia, Augustus and Octavia. The expression on Livia's face is chill-inducing (Neo-Classicism suits her). However there's the other half of one's brain clamouring "But why is he naked at a poetry reading?"

(The museum tours always oscillate between serious and not-so-much. The portraits of sensitive looking young noblemen in the National Gallery: "Emo. Emo. SO VERY EMO. ...Goth.")

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It's raining mastiffs and Saint Bernards. My skirt is soaked and my socks are soaked, which caused my shoes to somehow dye the soles of my feet black. =_=+ I hope this doesn't destroy the autumn colours, they were coming along so well (warm clear days and cool nights). It's going to be cold from here on out.

P.S. Where is the ILM thread on the new Depeche Mode album??? Or do we not do that?

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[bell]

I'm uploading some of Rome up, so I'll be your gal. It'll be up by tomorrow. :D Though, you know fable, don't you? She has all of the episodes uploaded.

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Hmm, as for the story itself, it sounded vaguely like some medieval tale of chivalry, as in the setting, but really the thing that went through my mind was "hurt/comfort" XD

Where do you find these earlier versions of the Arabian Nights?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say earlier. I know I've read a bunch of retellings (and encountered the actual story itself in non Arabian-Nights contexts) but as to the authenticity of them who knows.

[rondaview.livejournal.com]

ILM believes DM has been around too long and has been rehashing the same things since god knows when and is thus irrelevent to modern day music. and I'm only partly kidding when I say that.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

But then they should have a thread to bash'em, just like they did for Royksopp! Or for fans of the late-80s albums to be disappointed in. XD

Oh well, I should really register for ILX itself before I say anything.

[re-miel.livejournal.com]

That's not quite neo-classicism. Neo-classicism is a bit later and to the other side of La Manche. Get thee to Lord Leighton, Lawrence Alma-Thadema, John Collier and their ilk. Although I prefer their bastard children with the continental symbolist movement - like George Watts, for instance. :)
Oh, and on the subject of Livia, Augustus & company, I think you did mention reading Grave's I, Claudius but have you actually seen the famous BBS TV series they've made it into?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Is so. French Neo-Classicism began with David and more or less ended with Ingres, who lived long. I find Alma-Tadema, Leighton etc.'s take warmer and more lively, to be honest, as they had more of a - sociohistorical? - and occasionally Orientalist bent, as opposed to Ingres who was about the pure lines of Greek sculpture and... er well, the pure lines of Greek sculpture.

I've seen some of it, when I was much younger. But what I remember is the book. XD