I reread Spaceballs: the Movie: the Book this weekend. Amazing. It's somewhat similar to the professoriate of the average American university -- simultaneously brilliant and stupid, with a strong tendency toward frivolity.
"'No, no. Light speed is too slow!" Lord Dark Helmet protested. 'We'll have to go to ludicrous speed!'Sandurz was astonished at the suggestion. 'Ludicrous speed?" he said, leaning forward and gripping the handrail. 'We've never gone that fast before. I'm not sure the ship can take it.'
'What's the matter Colonel Sandurz? Are you chicken?'"
Not all my reading was so highbrow. I also finished Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles. It ended with a lot of parallels to The Dreamers, but he had the courage to follow through in the end. Even in translation there are some lovely turns of phrase. Definitely worth a read.
However, it was something of ten pounds of book stuffed into a five pound novella -- in a traditional reading the book felt rushed, especially the conclusion.
When approached more like a Classical myth I think it would read better. The brother-sister relationship is straight out of a Greek play, and elements like the snowball and the poison are presented as concretely as stage props.
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