Isn't that when he was trying to bang the girl but the other guy actually impressed her?
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Oh my God, I was not expecting the whole necromancy thing. War, feuds, Cellini sleeping around, stabbing people, I get that. Necromancy?
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Kangxi posted:Oh my God, I was not expecting the whole necromancy thing. War, feuds, Cellini sleeping around, stabbing people, I get that. Necromancy? This book has it all! Back when we did Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay, there was a chapter on medieval alchemists and how they were all total scam artists, and from what I recall, the "necromancer" Cellini talks to was following the same basic scam playbook. It makes total sense because Cellini is prime grade-A scam artist fuel: delusional, easily flattered, constantly playing with huge amounts of gold and jewels that aren't his, etc. Problem is Cellini was too crazy.
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I'm probably going to put up Decameron for next month because we haven't read it, we already did The Plague, and it has sexy nuns in it and will give us all an excuse to watch The Little Hours. Any other suggestions?
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It's almost the end of the month so I can bring up my favorite part of this book without worrying about anyone not getting the chance to encounter it without warning. Chapter 107. quote:THE CASTELLAN was subject to a certain sickness, which came upon him every year and deprived him of his wits. The sign of its approach was that he kept continually talking, or rather jabbering, to no purpose. These humours took a different shape each year; one time he thought he was an oiljar; another time he thought he was a frog, and hopped about as frogs do; another time he thought he was dead, and then they had to bury him; not a year passed but he got some such hypochondriac notions into his head. At this season he imagined that he was a bat, and when he went abroad to take the air, he used to scream like bats in a high thin tone; and then he would flap his hands and body as though he were about to fly. The doctors, when they saw the fit coming on him, and his old servants, gave him all the distractions they could think of; and since they had noticed that he derived much pleasure from my conversation, they were always fetching me to keep him company. At times the poor man detained me for four or five stricken hours without ever letting me cease talking. He used to keep me at his table, eating opposite to him, and never stopped chatting and making me chat; but during those discourses I contrived to make a good meal. He, poor man, could neither eat nor sleep; so that at last he wore me out. I was at the end of my strength; and sometimes when I looked at him, I noticed that his eyeballs were rolling in a frightful manner, one looking one way and the other in another. Overall the part where Cellini is imprisoned and then stages a prison break is my favorite part of the whole book, but the fact that it happens because the jailer goes nuts and thinks he's a bat is my favorite part of my favorite part. And it comes out of loving nowhere and Cellini never acknowledges how totally insane it is.
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I also love that the guy asks him whether he's ever considered flying and Cellini is like "I'm better are running and jumping than most people, so if anyone could do it, I can do it"
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You can add that to the considerable list of Cellini's achievements: pulled one over the Batman. Anyway, I assume we've already done Blindness?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm probably going to put up Decameron for next month because we haven't read it, we already did The Plague, and it has sexy nuns in it and will give us all an excuse to watch The Little Hours. Any other suggestions? Yes, let's watch Pasolini's Decameron film too.
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Isnt the decameron nearly 1000 pages
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Isnt the decameron nearly 1000 pages What, like you don't have time to read right now?
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I have books about japanese perverts to read I dont have time for italian perverts
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm probably going to put up Decameron for next month because we haven't read it, we already did The Plague, and it has sexy nuns in it and will give us all an excuse to watch The Little Hours. Any other suggestions? I have some notes on the Decameron that I pulled out for my plague lit thread, I will try to get them in a legible shape
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:What, like you don't have time to read right now? A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe please.
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I'm struggling with this book. It's like groundhog day. I've gotta be like 200 pages in and it's Benevenuto getting in trouble and stabbing people in the face every 5 pages. Then the loving prison break bat man lunacy hits and I can't set this aside. jfc The whole "necromancy" thing 50 pages prior seems kinda normal at this point. Also lmao at them taking pot shots at pigeons and people freaking out that it's just Benevenuto trying to murder someone again.
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Terry Gilliam is kind of a poo poo person and it's been a while since he's been on his directing game but I will forever wonder what he could have made of this book in his prime.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm probably going to put up Decameron for next month because we haven't read it, we already did The Plague, and it has sexy nuns in it and will give us all an excuse to watch The Little Hours. Any other suggestions? Hell yeah. I have notes for this one.
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cda posted:Terry Gilliam is kind of a poo poo person and it's been a while since he's been on his directing game but I will forever wonder what he could have made of this book in his prime. Thread necromancy sorry. I was idly browsing here and loved this book when I read it ages ago. Anyway, oddly enough Terry Gilliam was involved with an adaptation of this. I saw a staging of Berlioz’s Cellini opera that was designed by Gilliam. Was all right...it had a good bronze casting scene. Not a patch on the book though.
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# ? Feb 15, 2025 04:40 |
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L.H.O.O.Q. posted:Thread necromancy sorry. I was idly browsing here and loved this book when I read it ages ago. ... There's an opera? Of course there's a opera. Such an operatic book. Thanks for bringing this up, I am gonna listen to it now.
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