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matrixrefugeeI had had no plans for the day: just needed a down day after all the emotionally drained feelings I've been dealing with: however, my dad took part of the day off since a roofer was coming to give us an estimate on how much it will cost. Afterward, we went to the Used Book Superstore in Burlington (we had a coupon come in the mail): picked up the usual crazy stack of books, including, but not limited to the first book of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" (aka "Belize's canon" to the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
carpe_ho_ras crowd), C.S. Lewis's "Poems" (did not know he wrote poetry at any length...), Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's "Herland", and Norma Goodrich's "The Grail" (a study on Grail lore and various incarnations thereof).
Saw something rather strange, and I wonder if someone working there did this on purpose as an educated joke: On not one, not two, but three different shelves in the Classics section, there was a copy of Macchiavelli's "The Prince" right next to a copy of St. Thomas More's "Utopia". There couldn't be two more vastly different books, from the same era, and yet here they are, cheek by jowl. What made this even funnier is that last night I'd watched the second episode of season one of "The Tudors", in which the King and Sir Thomas discuss both those very books. Which made me laugh out loud, since a lot of commentators will point immediately to Macchiavelli when they're describing a certain anti-hero/anti-villan/sneaky little character who was also played by Jonathon Rhys-Meyers. And I've read that part of JRM's preparation for said role was reading Macchiavelli. Of course this is triggering much hilarity in headspace -- as does watching "The Tudors": when I'm not snarking about the historical revisionism (though kudos to the costume designers for including a hairshirt as part of Jeremy Northram's wardrobe, since St. Thomas actually wore one), "the boys" are making wacky comments ("Hey, the skinny kid grew into himself...").
carpe_ho_ras crowd), C.S. Lewis's "Poems" (did not know he wrote poetry at any length...), Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's "Herland", and Norma Goodrich's "The Grail" (a study on Grail lore and various incarnations thereof).Saw something rather strange, and I wonder if someone working there did this on purpose as an educated joke: On not one, not two, but three different shelves in the Classics section, there was a copy of Macchiavelli's "The Prince" right next to a copy of St. Thomas More's "Utopia". There couldn't be two more vastly different books, from the same era, and yet here they are, cheek by jowl. What made this even funnier is that last night I'd watched the second episode of season one of "The Tudors", in which the King and Sir Thomas discuss both those very books. Which made me laugh out loud, since a lot of commentators will point immediately to Macchiavelli when they're describing a certain anti-hero/anti-villan/sneaky little character who was also played by Jonathon Rhys-Meyers. And I've read that part of JRM's preparation for said role was reading Macchiavelli. Of course this is triggering much hilarity in headspace -- as does watching "The Tudors": when I'm not snarking about the historical revisionism (though kudos to the costume designers for including a hairshirt as part of Jeremy Northram's wardrobe, since St. Thomas actually wore one), "the boys" are making wacky comments ("Hey, the skinny kid grew into himself...").
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Date: 2010-07-24 05:30 pm (UTC)(And I really should re-read Machiavelli, whenever I have a chance. It would help with the SP-writing >.>)
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Date: 2010-07-25 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-25 10:38 pm (UTC)Ever heard of Giorgio Agamben?