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luka

luka

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what i had in mind was craners idolisation of the neoconservatives and his love for the daughters of central asian tyrants
 
luka

luka

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im not an aesthete im a puritan and a moralist who happens to have a very advanced aesthetic sensibility. craner is 100% aesthete. not one single moral. a pure breed.
 
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poetix

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It's interesting that Mrs Coulter has been played by both Ruth Wilson (who was a marvellously good psychopath in Luther) and Nicole Kidman - suggests a character who (male?) readers get quite excited about.
 
luka

luka

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i read the first dark materials recently and Pullman himself is quite excited by her. Cruella De Ville etc
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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poetix said:
It's interesting that Mrs Coulter has been played by both Ruth Wilson (who was a marvellously good psychopath in Luther) and Nicole Kidman - suggests a character who (male?) readers get quite excited about.
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She is meant to be quite sexy in the books, I think, within the limits of their being kids' books. Glamorous, well dressed. Good at manipulating men.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

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That was a title my ex's colleague suggested for his PhD title. When asked to explain what it meant he couldn't say beyond being adamant it was a great title.
 
linebaugh

linebaugh

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Regarding Curtis's political views- by most discernible measures he's a lefty but makes it a point of emphasis to avoid categorazation as such and likewise sees his self prescribed identity as an nonpartisan libertarian a point of pride. I'm not interested in whatever Curtis's true categorization may be, but I feel like I see that sentiment echoed alot by his age group- somewhere around gen X. Is that right? And if so what gets that age group riled up like that?
 
version

version

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I can't think of many genuine examples of "sexy evil" as I think being evil takes a toll, as Roald Dahl says in The Twits:
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
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And Pynchon says in Vineland:
“When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face.”
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