Re: Coriolanus

[Rob Schaap <carob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G'day Yoshie,

>For better and worse, that universe is also our own. We require
>theater but expect sincerity, seek equality but long for nobility,
>disdaining what we also demand.

If all the world's a stage, there's no reason to assume there's no
theatricality in us - and that'd make it as sincere as a suffragette at the
Derby or a shopper before a tank.  And there is no nobility in those who
surfeit with too much as there is none in those who starve with nothing.  On
that account nobility absolutely requires equality.

Lousy binaries, these, and not at all ones Shakespeare ever mentioned to me.
 The 'mutable rank-scented many' are no more mutable than Corialanus, after
all, and to value virtues greater than our world encourages is no bad thing.
 Reckon Shakespeare could have had something like that in mind.  As old
Oscar (and the adorable Pretenders) said, we're all of us in the gutter, but
some of us look at the stars.

Cheers,
Rob.