http://sunliner.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] sunliner.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] revolution_fr2007-07-17 01:50 am

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I watched Simon Schama's Power of Art thing on David and jeeeez, he really hates him, doesn't he? It actually bothered me. Like, to the point where I made faces at the TV.
Also I forgot to add that it is very apparent that Death of Marat just EXHUDES ~*evil revolutionary sentiments*~ that corrupt the minds of our youth, ya know?

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, I threw my pen at the TV right after he called him a monster. I also shout to him to go fuck himself and to suck George III's balls.

...

Vulgarity aside, I mean, even my royalist mother thought Schama was overdoing it with the hate. He's a frustrated and pathetic propagandist who supposedly "hates" propaganda through David without realising his entire show was Anglo-Saxon counter-revolutionary propaganda.

And of course, that painting exhudes teh corrupting ebilness. It's "witchcraft" directly from the "Church of Revolutionary Virtue". You didn't listen Schama's wise words? :P

More bashing on my journal (http://maelicia.livejournal.com/331535.html) if it interests you (since [livejournal.com profile] kurotoshi referred to it anyway) -- it's satisfying at least, somehow.

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
P.S. I friended you, because it was a F-locked ranting post.

[identity profile] jonahmama.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
This finally aired on US TV now. I would love to read your rant, but what's up with the f-locked Revolution posts? :'-( [You have a bigger fan club than you know. ;) ]

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...I hadn't realised I had a fan club. -_-; I just thought that my radical, intransigeant, impassioned jacobin-robespierriste rants were bothering the more moderate temperament... Hmm. I suppose we could do something to solve this problem.

[identity profile] jonahmama.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Who ARE these "moderates" being bothered by YOUR journal? Let us haul them before the tribunal presently! ;)

Um, yes, pleeeeeeze.

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-07-31 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. If there's one thing I learned over the last year, it's precisely that hauling a moderate to the tribunal because that particular citizen(ness) is bothered by my journal would turn out to be a bad idea with bad eventual consequences for everybody in general, but especially for the Republic.

The ghost of Tallien once stalked my LJ, after all.

Well, to be frank: I was speaking of Desmoulins' fangirls. I once offended one who, exactly like him, happened to defend nobles with questionable and unreliable allegiances. Okay, so it happened one year ago, but it was a very traumatising LJ experience.

I could unlock that entry. -_-;

[identity profile] jonahmama.livejournal.com 2007-07-31 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Or would you consider adding me? I am not easily offended and the only person I tend to defend with a passion is Robespierre. And I am happy to add you back, but my journal is exceedingly boring, I assure you.

As for ghosts, you know that sort of discontent is transparent. If they were so bothered they wouldn't be reading now, would they?

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-07-31 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, I added you. This will make the whole thing much easier. -_-;

Hmm. Of course. And that ghost was so easily pwned, he deleted all of his comments.

[identity profile] jonahmama.livejournal.com 2007-07-31 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

A cowardly creature, wasn't he. ;)

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-07-31 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
^_^

He was logically and wonderfully in character. :P

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-07-18 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I believe that's because they usually avoid to speak of the political ideas. When they do -- in biographies, for example -- they generally can't avoid to bash David, firstly for painting Marat, secondly for being Robespierre's friend.

There is an ideological and political issue with all of this bashing that keeps on fascinating me. All the revisionists (French or Anglo-Americans) have a thing in common, they all seem to try to condemn the revolutionary idealism as if it were "absolute evil" and therefore needed to be destroyed.....

[identity profile] morgan-wang.livejournal.com 2007-08-09 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't like David either. Sure he can draw, but polticaly he was a double-crosser. One day its, "I will drink the hemlock with you" to Robespierre, the next, "Oh, dear, it apears he's lost populatiry and will be executed, Time to go into hiding." (Okay, I made the last quote up. but still...)