September 17, 2004

Rupert of Hentzau

Nobody has ever urged me to read Rupert of Hentzau, the sequel to Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda. And now I know why. Zounds! What a downer!

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I mean, I know that there are lots of stories in our culture where the sexually-transgressive woman must die before the end. (And I try not to think too hard about what such stories say about the sanity of the deep tape that Mother Darwin has given us.) But these Victorians! For the sexually-transgressive man to die?! And without even managing to be sexually transgressive?!

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Yes, I remember hunting it down many years ago because I loved Prisoner of Zenda as a teenager. And the sequel was rather depressing. But it's cool to hear of it again.

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Wow, I thought I was the only person ever to read the sequel, on a very dusty shelf of the Chevy Chase Branch Library. So much for happy endings. And no wonder Hollywood keeps doing increasingly wretched remakes to the movie… instead of the sequel.

For that matter, did anyone else notice PoZ implies that Black Michael is the favo[u]rite of the lower classes?

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