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mariez:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on July 08, 2007, 06:50:32 am ---here tis.
http://louisev.livejournal.com/226940.html "Chesterfield Fortune ch 36."
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This certainly is a treat -
SPOILERS
What a wonderful chapter. Always great to get inside Colson's mind. So touching to hear him thinking about Edna in the role of "momma" - and now we know that he had a son who died shortly after being born. Sad. Sweet how he finds Ellery's "bluff and bluster" almost comfortable. He knows his man so well. Loved this last line:
“Not right now, I’m just gonna enjoy watchin you.”
Very nice.
Thanks,
Marie
magicmountain:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on July 08, 2007, 08:48:07 am ---And maybe Oliver Stone doesn't know that when a young boy is castrated to become a eunuch, he grows soft, feminine and round, not stick-insect heroin chic.
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One would think so - especially those who are castrated very young. However, Mary Renault writes in her author's note to The Persian Boy that in fact all eunuchs don't become "gross and flabby". She notes that "one need go no further back than the eighteenth century and its famous operatic castrati, whose romantic looks caused them to be much pursued by women of fashion. A portrait of the greatest, Farinelli, done in early middle age, shows a handsome sensitive face, and a figure many modern tenors might envy. The diarist Dr Burney, writing of him still later, said, He is tall and thin, but looks very well for his time of life, is lively and well bred." Interesting.
louisev:
I found this portrait of Farinelli. He definitely looks ... soft and feminine!
louisev:
Chesterfield 37 is in the making at this hour.
louisev:
...
and there it is!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/227167.html chapter 37.
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