soit parjure a ton roi
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incandescensAnd on my CD player, Yseult sings that she is the "slave of a conflagration, of this lava which flows through my veins... Tristan, can you open your arms to me? I could die to be yours. Tristan, be forsworn to your king! I would die if only I could be yours..."
Wonderful fodder for opera, musicals, books, manga, anime, and any of a hundred different vehicles for epic and for pain.
2 or 3 weeks ago, I persuaded my parents to watch Saiyuki Requiem with me, and, as I believe I mentioned at the time, we had an interesting discussion afterwards. There was something else that I didn't mention at the time: my father gave me a copy of Kafka's story Before The Law to read. (Well, to be precise, he gave me a copy of Kafka's Trial, as the story's recounted in that, and then discussed by the characters.) He felt I might be interested in it, given my commentary on Sanzou's actions.
So I share a link to an online version of it here.
http://www.pith.net/pithfiles/b4law.htm
I don't have any answers, either.
Wonderful fodder for opera, musicals, books, manga, anime, and any of a hundred different vehicles for epic and for pain.
2 or 3 weeks ago, I persuaded my parents to watch Saiyuki Requiem with me, and, as I believe I mentioned at the time, we had an interesting discussion afterwards. There was something else that I didn't mention at the time: my father gave me a copy of Kafka's story Before The Law to read. (Well, to be precise, he gave me a copy of Kafka's Trial, as the story's recounted in that, and then discussed by the characters.) He felt I might be interested in it, given my commentary on Sanzou's actions.
So I share a link to an online version of it here.
http://www.pith.net/pithfiles/b4law.htm
I don't have any answers, either.
