Friday 13 September 2013

Of Lunacy and Innocence

We talked of lunacy, innocence, artlessness, naiivete, Aurora Leigh and turned our discussion into Dostoevsky [The Idiot - Prince Mishkin], Thomas Mann [The Magic Mountain], and Fitzgerald [Tender in the Night].

The talk also turned to Suddenly Last Summer and Marat/Sade.
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