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J.C. wrote: "Very clever, Ulysse!
I'm about to re-read this wonderful book after having watched an American musical of it last night. Brave actors, but the poetry was lost."
It's such a great play, Jeanne. I first fell in love with it aged 10 thanks to the film adaptation with Depardieu. I asked my parents for the book and carried it around with me everywhere I went, just to look cool, for I could hardly understand a word of it! It wasn't until my twenties before I could fully enjoy Cyrano in printed form.
I too fell in love with it on seeing the film, Ulysse, but wasn't as enterprising as you! I'm going to watch it again tonight.
Allow me to compliment you in the words of Rostand:
"La sage Pénélope
Ne fût pas demeurée à broder sous son toit,
Si le seigneur Ulysse eût écrit comme toi,
Mais pour le joindre, elle eût, aussi folle qu'Hélène,
Envoyé promener ses pelotons de laine ! . . . "
J.C. wrote: "I too fell in love with it on seeing the film, Ulysse, but wasn't as enterprising as you! I'm going to watch it again tonight.
Allow me to compliment you in the words of Rostand:
"La sage Pénélope
..."
Lovely verses, Jeanne, I didn't remember this passage from Cyrano. Makes one wonder indeed why Ulysses didn't write home to his beloved. I met a Greek academic at a Christmas party the other day who told me his theory about the Odyssey. The whole poem according to him describes a man's midlife crisis. Ulysses abandons wive and son, lives with his mistress, Calypso for several years, travels the world, gets into all manner of mischief, and when he comes home has to try and win back his abandoned wife's heart by killing its suitors one by one. Bit psychoanalytical this approach, but interesting nonetheless.
Ulysse wrote: "J.C. wrote: "I too fell in love with it on seeing the film, Ulysse, but wasn't as enterprising as you! I'm going to watch it again tonight.
Allow me to compliment you in the words of Rostand:
"La s..."
Interesting, Ulysse! And I once met a Canadian academic who had done research to show that Ulysses came from Barra (he even knew the house - "Taigh Talamhantha"). Apparently it's now regarded as plausible that Ulysses and other men were commissioned by the female rulers of the west to do their fighting for them in the east!
J.C. wrote: "And I once met a Canadian academic who had done research to show that Ulysses came from Barra (he even knew the house - "Taigh Talamhantha")."
Curiouser and curiouser, Jeanne. What's even stranger in all this is that I had a dna test done a while back and it turns out that 2% of it is from the Hebrides!
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J.C. wrote: "Very clever, Ulysse! I'm about to re-read this wonderful book after having watched an American musical of it last night. Brave actors, but the poetry was lost."
It's such a great play, Jeanne. I first fell in love with it aged 10 thanks to the film adaptation with Depardieu. I asked my parents for the book and carried it around with me everywhere I went, just to look cool, for I could hardly understand a word of it! It wasn't until my twenties before I could fully enjoy Cyrano in printed form.
I too fell in love with it on seeing the film, Ulysse, but wasn't as enterprising as you! I'm going to watch it again tonight.Allow me to compliment you in the words of Rostand:
"La sage Pénélope
Ne fût pas demeurée à broder sous son toit,
Si le seigneur Ulysse eût écrit comme toi,
Mais pour le joindre, elle eût, aussi folle qu'Hélène,
Envoyé promener ses pelotons de laine ! . . . "
J.C. wrote: "I too fell in love with it on seeing the film, Ulysse, but wasn't as enterprising as you! I'm going to watch it again tonight.Allow me to compliment you in the words of Rostand:
"La sage Pénélope
..."
Lovely verses, Jeanne, I didn't remember this passage from Cyrano. Makes one wonder indeed why Ulysses didn't write home to his beloved. I met a Greek academic at a Christmas party the other day who told me his theory about the Odyssey. The whole poem according to him describes a man's midlife crisis. Ulysses abandons wive and son, lives with his mistress, Calypso for several years, travels the world, gets into all manner of mischief, and when he comes home has to try and win back his abandoned wife's heart by killing its suitors one by one. Bit psychoanalytical this approach, but interesting nonetheless.
Ulysse wrote: "J.C. wrote: "I too fell in love with it on seeing the film, Ulysse, but wasn't as enterprising as you! I'm going to watch it again tonight.Allow me to compliment you in the words of Rostand:
"La s..."
Interesting, Ulysse! And I once met a Canadian academic who had done research to show that Ulysses came from Barra (he even knew the house - "Taigh Talamhantha"). Apparently it's now regarded as plausible that Ulysses and other men were commissioned by the female rulers of the west to do their fighting for them in the east!
J.C. wrote: "And I once met a Canadian academic who had done research to show that Ulysses came from Barra (he even knew the house - "Taigh Talamhantha")."Curiouser and curiouser, Jeanne. What's even stranger in all this is that I had a dna test done a while back and it turns out that 2% of it is from the Hebrides!
I'm about to re-read this wonderful book after having watched an American musical of it last night. Brave actors, but the poetry was lost.