History January 16, 2006
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Lately I’ve taken to reading biographies. But not just any biography, I’m reading the ones with a little bit of actual history and a whole lot of panache! Both of course readily available from my favorite online shop, Amazon.com. Oh yes people if there was a Heaven online, Amazon.com would be it. Of course everything is subjective when the site in question may or may not give you what you what.
You see, I prayed for a few (11) items to the Gods at Amazon.com, and I received all of them. See, I only pray to Gods who listen to me and heed my prayers. And all I had to do was hold a very simple sacrificial ritual ceremony of numbers, credit card, and payment.
So I ordered two bestsellers (amongst other goodies) the first (which I am currently reading) Marie Antoinette The Journey written by Antonia Fraser, and Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire written by Amanda Foreman.
Both these books looked very promising as I researched the reviews both books had gotten online, and the decision to get them for meself to judge were confirmed after I “flipped” through a few of their cyber pages (contents, pages, index). And all this I managed to do on Amazon.com! Oh gawd do I love Amazon.com.
My reading list has been really weird of late. I really never thought that I would ever be interested in biographies, especially about dead women who lived in a time that we will never truly understand or will be able to barely imagine. Yeah, yeah, yeah some people have already said this (so you oughtnt), “well you’ve seen Elizabeth, Dangerous Liaisons, this should give you a clear indication of what they wore and how they behaved”….. Reallieee…. I am not even going to justify that you modern thinking, narrow minded bastards.
All I know after having read half of Marie Antoinette The Journey written by Antonia Fraser, is that I am more fasinated if not mortified of what people had to go through back in those “ages”.
Example did you know that the rules of court and etiqutte were so strict that Marie Antoinette once had to stand naked for hour two hours infront of her ladies-in-waiting, as the ladies in question had a series of rituals to perform before she could get dressed. First they had to put on their white gloves before handling her garments, then the garments would travel from the white gloves of the lowest rank lady-in-waiting to the highest.
I didn’t.
Did you know that these ladies-in-waiting all had high titles?
I didn’t.
Did you know that 130 people got squashed to death as they tried to enter the Palace of Versailles during one of the celebrations of the marriage between Marie Antoinette and Louis Augustus, as workmen had bordered up the exit and people just kept pushing themselves and their carriages into the roads to the gates of the Palace?
Nope, neither did I.
I’ve always enjoyed history in school, but dangnamit, now I love it!
Lush Hush
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence January 13, 2006
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Written By: Inga Muscio
Women and girls all over the world should get their hands on this book. I daresay that it’ll be hard especially in some parts of the world were the word is really, really, really taboo, and even harder to read it in public, so do what you did in high school and wrap the front and back in something really pretty, like wrapping paper for presents. Worse come to worse, buy it and study it at home. For the guys out there, yeah, you should go and get it too….. Yeah right, because the moment I say “It Is a Feminist Book You Morons”… You might very well change your minds. Both of them. Well if I were being technical I’d say the smartest one of them, you know the really tinie one that’s supposedly dormant but springs to attention the moment I type ”see you next Tuesday”. Yes you bum, that one.
Inga’s point of view however agrees with our own, once we come to realize that dang, dang, dang…. She’s bloody right.
Those who love “their man,a nd I’ll stand by him even if he kicks me in the arse and sends me spiraling down to Hell”, don’t worry. This book is in no way a “man-hating piece of crap”. This book’s only purpose is to share no.1 her experiences and the ways she got out of them/went through them; no.2 inform all of us of how we could potentially save our pockets; no.3 how our entire life doesn’t have to revolve around men making money off us.
Beware though, this book touches on a whole lot of touchy subjects. Abortion, rape, orgasms (well the lack thereof in our modern society that is) just to name a few.
But those brave enough who have already set their minds to ordering, buying, and bringing on the challenge of reading this book, let me say that I admire and respect you. It won’t be easy, but the end result will be worth it.
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
Gets 5 out of 5 Lushies
Lush Hush
