What about Hadrian VII?

Post #201,963 by rcareaga 4/5/05 10:03:14 AM 4/7/05 9:27:03 PM Reply	What about Hadrian VII? Saith Ashton "Personally, I'd prefer Anthony Quinn aka Shoes of the Fisherman as next Pope." Has anyone here ever read Hadrian the Seventh by Fr.[ederick] Rolfe, AKA "Baron Corvo"? I may be going out on a limb here, but if there was a better mad fantasy wish-fulfillment novel about the papacy published between 1900 and 1910 by a certifiably paranoid repressed homosexual failed seminarian of English birth, well, I can't bring it to mind. It was adapted for the stage in the latter 1960s, and Hume Cronyn, Alec McCowen, Cyril Cusak and Derek Jacobi have at various times played the title role, a chain-smoking, Vatican-rattling, world-rearranging reformist pontiff. cordially, [edit: typo] Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist. Edited by rcareaga April 7, 2005, 09:27:03 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #202,363 by GBert 4/7/05 6:46:37 PM Reply	Thanks for the reminder I was in the middle of Hadrian VII several years ago, getting a kick out of the author's exhibitionistic projection of his giant self-image on his big canvas, but then I was in a car accident and lost interest for a while... Since then we've moved, and now it's in a box somewhere and I'll have to dig it out at some point... but after i finish Mr. Norrell and Jonathan Strange, which I'm enjoying a lot. Giovanni Have whatever values you have. That's what America is for. You don't need George Bush for that.
Post #202,365 by ben_tilly 4/7/05 6:49:16 PM Reply	ICLRPD (new thread) Created as new thread #202364 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=202364\|ICLRPD] I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #202,412 by Ashton 4/8/05 3:12:17 AM Reply	On list Should be a fine diversion from the gospels of Pratchett.. thus extending the diminishing unread titles, out of which {sob} I dare not run ... during tenure of the present Warts on the asshole of Humanity. Endless possibilities - circumscribed only by that level of deviation -?- just shy of curious Curia curare administration, (I'd wot). But - - Anthony Quinn LOOKS the Part!
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Post #202,591 by Ashton 4/9/05 3:41:54 AM Reply	No - Salvation is At Hand!__\ufffd All Hail The Unitarian Jihad \ufffd (new thread) Created as new thread #202590 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=202590\|No - Salvation is At Hand!__\ufffd All Hail The Unitarian Jihad \ufffd]

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