I'm actually re-reading The Danton Case right now and there are some lines in that for which I'm trying to figure out a non-sexual interpretation. During Camille and Robespierre's big break up scene, yeesh... I wish I could see this play staged, just to see if the director dared to make the rampantly homoerotic undertones as blatant as they are in the stage directions.
You're right, the phrasing of that sentence is unclear... And I guess that's why novelists/playwrights have seen it and gone "Woo hoo! Creative liberty!"
The mental image I get of that encounter from Robespierre's highly obscure re-telling is Danton dismissively saying of Camille, as an explanation for his political deviance, "Whatever, he's just a _____" (insert your deviancy of choice here).
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Date: 2008-09-18 05:16 pm (UTC)You're right, the phrasing of that sentence is unclear... And I guess that's why novelists/playwrights have seen it and gone "Woo hoo! Creative liberty!"
The mental image I get of that encounter from Robespierre's highly obscure re-telling is Danton dismissively saying of Camille, as an explanation for his political deviance, "Whatever, he's just a _____" (insert your deviancy of choice here).