The Very Long Post (all right, *posts*): Part II

[montagnarde1793]

Now for an article and a link which should have ranting, but don't because....they just don't. XD

I must say, I'm not quite sure why this book needed to exist, but since it does, a rather annoying compilation of reviews. As promised, I will leave off the rant, but I do entreat you to consider the sentence "Marie-Antoinette's greatest sin, it seems, was that she insisted on being herself", and shudder with me.

Item Two: I don't know how many of you have seen the new and decidedly un-improved version of the Antoinette movie's website, but the production notes are truly frightening.....In related news, the one supposedly "authentic" piece of music there was written by Scarlatti, an Italian composer who died in 1725. Does anyone else think the odds of that being played in Versailles during Antoinette's stay there are just a *bit* low?

Next Post: The root of all that is wrong with American politics, brought to you by my ever-so-annoying-and-obviously-biased AP US History class, and my review of Manon, as performed this past Saturday evening at the LA Opera (including rant about alternate stagings and how they never show my favorite operas--or they show them at times and in places there is no way I can possibly be).

Comments

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

PROTO-FEMINIST?????????????????????????????????????????


I feel like dying.
...did I ever tell you that? I think I might have forgotten to. I don't have much time to really develop on this, so I'll simply repeat that I really do feel like dying.

*stabs self*




Btw, I finished writing the first draft of my future letter to Hilary Mantel. I might consider writing to Sofia Coppola after that. SINCERELY.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Don't die!......but HOW could ANYONE think that? HOW? I just don't understand it.

I finished writing the first draft of my future letter to Hilary Mantel.
Can I see it?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I'll try not to... just because I have no idea if death would be worse or better. And I don't know if I'd be allowed to get a small sight of their Spartan-like French Elysium.

I don't know how they can possibly think she was a proto-feminist. I don't know why they believe that the rococo whores founded the "empire of women". I don't know why the fucking Merveilleuses are in charge of our society. I just wish I'd know, but I have no answer. I keep on screaming POURQUOI to the sky well... the ceiling and THEY DON'T ANSWER ME.
Note that they probably don't answer because they have no answer either. Or rather, I know what they'd answer. David would have a fit. Le Bas would weep. Saint-Just would sneer. And Maxime would just blink and wonder what my over-dramatic pourquoi is all about. No idea what Couthon would say though. Maybe he should answer me then.


Sure. I sent it to you :D

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

But wouldn't it be awesome if you could?

to the sky well... the ceiling
*sporfle*

Don't you think Maxime would be upset too?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Well, I thought you didn't want me to die, but of course, I could always try to stab myself while listenning to La Marseillaise and see if it would work. But... I'm not sure I could actually tell you if I got a glimpse of the French Revolutionary Elysium -- unless they find me at the right time and wake me up from my coma. But then, to get my complete report on it, you'd have to wait that the medical authorities allow me to get me out of the mental hospital -- after they desperately try to understand for months and months why the hell I wanted to see the French Revolutionary Elysium and why I had to stab myself for it and why I hate our present world so much.

I can always wait to see it again in dreams... but that's more complex and long because I have to wait for it to happen.

Maybe he'd be upset... but it might take him a while before he realises there are half-dressed chicks all around. Knowing Maxime, he wouldn't get it, at first.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I meant *eventually*--Really! Don't stab yourself, listening to La Marseillaise or otherwise!

Well, you know....he's oblivious, but I don't know that he's *that* oblivious.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

...You think I shouldn't? ;___;

Who knows. *shrugs*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

You think you should?!

I suppose we don't...but I still say he would be upset to know that Marveilleuses are running things.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I don't know... sometimes. ;______________;

After we explain him what are Merveilleuses, yes.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Just.....don't. ;__;

Oh...I don't suppose he would know, would he?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

...I'll try not to ;__;

Indeed not, since they came after... after him. *weeps*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Good. :D

Pauvre Maxime. ;__;