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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-10-11 06:42 am
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And those teenage hangups are hard to beat

I had forgotten the thread in Katherine Kincaid's Beloved Bondage (1993) that now reads like Christian inspirational romance, but then again that is an occupational hazard of narratives set in early imperial Rome. I've seen Ben-Hur (1959), and Quo Vadis (1951), and keep having to double-check about The Robe (1953). Now I want to re-read I, Claudius (1934), which thanks to the exigencies of my current life is in storage when it used to be one of the books I always unpacked first. In tenth grade, the majority of my friend group was reading Mercedes Lackey and I was reading Robert Graves. To each their id.
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[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2021-10-11 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
To be fair, I think I, Claudius avoids the Christian inspie vibe!
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[personal profile] sovay 2021-10-11 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
To be fair, I think I, Claudius avoids the Christian inspie vibe!

Definitely not a danger! Claudius is part of the historical supporting cast of Beloved Bondage, hence my wanting to re-read Graves. (As you can tell Kincaid did, because all her sympathetic Romans are Republicans, Claudius included.)
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