tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post8302817824390656337..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Salome non sine mentulaFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-65007566368584391902017-12-20T00:22:00.303+00:002017-12-20T00:22:00.303+00:00I dread the thought of a movie adaptation.
Stephen...I dread the thought of a movie adaptation.<br />Stephen Fry doing a seven veil shimmy?<br />Oh my eyes, my eyes.......tubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272003035464034763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88573987210964213242017-12-18T04:34:55.959+00:002017-12-18T04:34:55.959+00:00But I though the whole point of the play is that S...But I though the whole point of the play is that Salome is a young, nubile, certified double-X-chromosomed heterosexual nymph. An androgynous Salome seems to make as much sense as an androgynous Carmen, or an androgynous Cleopatra, or a Juliet. Heck, even Rose in Titanic needs to be unambiguously female…<br /><br />Maybe, in fairness, I need to see the production to “get” it.<br /><br />I think Grant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-50601043509352884562017-12-18T01:54:20.767+00:002017-12-18T01:54:20.767+00:00I always thought of the Picture of Dorian Gray as ...I always thought of the Picture of Dorian Gray as an expose of sodomy. There is one passage that always reminded me of sodomite clergy.<br />armyartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621738173563972139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-39825613528332864192017-12-18T01:49:48.779+00:002017-12-18T01:49:48.779+00:00Poor Wilde was a talented author who fell into sin...Poor Wilde was a talented author who fell into sin, and repented of it. Through God's grace, and after many trials, he sought redemption the Church. Those are the really essential facts of the case. How he could be used as a hero of the Gay lifestyle is beyond me.<br />armyartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621738173563972139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-54366427665533481382017-12-17T23:49:22.205+00:002017-12-17T23:49:22.205+00:00Quid est autem nequius aut turpius effeminato viro...Quid est autem nequius aut turpius effeminato viro? (Cicero) Non ambulet juxta te histrio fractus in feminam (Hieronymus).<br /><br />Martialem quoque velim citare sed rectius est tacere.Andreas Meszaroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08427763145710882785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20120764922419164692017-12-17T16:25:59.102+00:002017-12-17T16:25:59.102+00:00"Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break And pe..."Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?" Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" <br /><br />The author died in Paris on 30 November 1900, having been received into the Catholic Faith on his deathbed that very day.Liam Ronanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01376666519733160167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88104606104400472622017-12-17T15:25:05.158+00:002017-12-17T15:25:05.158+00:00'Twas ever thus. Yesterday's bold radicals...'Twas ever thus. Yesterday's bold radicals become today's enforcers of the new orthodoxy and then tomorrow's betrayers of the revolution. And all without needing to change their own position one iota. <i>Vide</i> Tatchell, Greer <i>et hoc genus omne</i>; likewise, in other contexts, Danton, Bukharin, etc. etc.<br /><br />And as for Saint Oscar, he'd probably have had his Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010105719301587195noreply@blogger.com