Oh. My. Fucking. Supreme. Being. That exists? I'm not sure my masochism extends that far.
...Clearly Hilary Mantel just holds séances in her head with Revolutionaries. She just can't admit it, because then everyone would know she was crazy.
her Pre-Revolution Robespierre as frustrated middle-class nobody seething with pent up rage repressed beneath a neat and polite exterior makes him sound like a serial killer Some people actually think that, it seems (http://community.livejournal.com/revolution_fr/110142.html?thread=1311038#t1311038). Of course, Mantel's sources for this portrayal are easily traceable, making her pretensions to have some presumably magical direct link to the Revolutionaries even more ludicrous.
That's true, and sad, especially if their world view is a jenga tower built on the pearls of wisdom handed down from these 'informed people'. Sadder still, it's not immediately obvious what can be done about it; it can be hard to break out of these kinds of cycles. Education could potentially do a great deal, but a truly different education could only come with a different society....
I recently saw a picture of Mantel in Buckingham Palace recieving her CBE and there was a part of me screaming -So while you were curtsying before the Queen vowing to uphold the British Empire, how much of a Robespierriste did you feel? I wish I could really ask her that. Just to see her reaction.
And while we are on the subject of Fabre, gay-partner beater whose magic thumps cure speech impediments, unlikely. Made up? I don't know enough to say for definite, but I'd hazard an informed guess it's bullshit. You could probably say this about most of her characters, come to think of it. Though her Fabre is a pretty egregious case of improbability.
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Date: Saturday, 5 June 2010 05:36 (UTC)...Clearly Hilary Mantel just holds séances in her head with Revolutionaries. She just can't admit it, because then everyone would know she was crazy.
her Pre-Revolution Robespierre as frustrated middle-class nobody seething with pent up rage repressed beneath a neat and polite exterior makes him sound like a serial killer
Some people actually think that, it seems (http://community.livejournal.com/revolution_fr/110142.html?thread=1311038#t1311038). Of course, Mantel's sources for this portrayal are easily traceable, making her pretensions to have some presumably magical direct link to the Revolutionaries even more ludicrous.
That's true, and sad, especially if their world view is a jenga tower built on the pearls of wisdom handed down from these 'informed people'.
Sadder still, it's not immediately obvious what can be done about it; it can be hard to break out of these kinds of cycles. Education could potentially do a great deal, but a truly different education could only come with a different society....
I recently saw a picture of Mantel in Buckingham Palace recieving her CBE and there was a part of me screaming -So while you were curtsying before the Queen vowing to uphold the British Empire, how much of a Robespierriste did you feel?
I wish I could really ask her that. Just to see her reaction.
And while we are on the subject of Fabre, gay-partner beater whose magic thumps cure speech impediments, unlikely. Made up? I don't know enough to say for definite, but I'd hazard an informed guess it's bullshit.
You could probably say this about most of her characters, come to think of it. Though her Fabre is a pretty egregious case of improbability.