V-2nd, ongoing profanity

[Michael Bailey]

 Robin Landseadel wrote:
>TRP makes a facile equation of the breakdown of
> tonal centers and the breakdown of mores and morals in its wake as La
> Jarretière is impaled during the ballet's musical climax. Meanwile, the boss
> comes up with lines about  "Mongolized fairies."
>
> Cyprian, in many ways, serves as a corrective.

not to mention that all along, like the Evacuation, it was theatre,
raspberry jam wasn't it?

to find that out 36-odd years (some of them very odd) later,
 (I first read V. in 1971, I think) is just one of the reasons that
it's been rewarding to be a lifelong fan of this author...

audiences in Paris anyway took their art pretty seriously

can any of us imagine attending a performance and being moved to riot
on the spot?  I can't, but supposedly it happened, right?




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Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
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