The Isolated Blurt Thread XXI: Killswitch Edition

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I just read an interesting article by Colm Tóibín on the "Sex Lives of the Castrati".


*reads article*

Films covering the subject, were made during a short period of time.
Strange, that the interest in such a thing would re-emerge.


Ah, the French and their Enlightenment.


"...made its way more than four hundred years later into the creation of one of the seminal texts of French criticism, Roland Barthes’s S/Z. The intensity of the text that Barthes’s book seeks to interrogate in minute and forensic detail – Balzac’s Sarrasine – and the intensity of Barthes’s own tone in S/Z may arise from the fact that the notion of the castrato was hotly contested in France. Attitudes towards these singers became a way of signalling prejudices and beliefs. How you felt about the castrato was a badge, a sign."

( gsgs comment- What you did, or did not exhibit, might get you killed. France was glutted with deaths. /end gsgs comment)


http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n19/colm-toibin/ravishing

Rivers of blood, accumulating in an ocean of blood.
 
Everything but. Book shopping in Waterstones, dinner at *Jamie Oliver's, tea in The Cat Café (with actual real cats clambering over us), tons of laughs and acting the twat with my best friend Ann.



* deep fried squid with chilli, three cheese gnocchi then molten chocolate pudding with salted caramel ice cream.
Sounds marvelous. Except that "cat café"; I've heard of that—not really my thing.
I don't need a reason to push a nun down the stairs. It must be the Irish in me.

Why does everyone love the Irish so much?

I'm going with lingual skills.
 
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