Who here likes literary analysis? Because I wrote a somewhat dense, 3000+ word essay on Raffles and the destruction of self. Think of it as a pre-Easter present
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Oh goodness, that reminds of that Doctor Who quote: "I am being extremely clever up here and there's no one to stand around looking impressed! What's the point in having you all?"
- So maybe he knows all along, at the back of his mind, that how he's remembered depends on Bunny.
I like this very much and am adding it to my head canon.
More seriously: yes, Raffles loves an audience...but he's not completely vain. He does work solo for years before The Ides of March, and again the whole time he's in Italy; he claims to want a quiet, respectable retirement. (He really doesn't, of course, but I think he at least wants to want it.) In A Jubilee Present Bunny notes Raffles' "...infatuation for the cup was, as he declared, a very pure passion, since the circumstances debarred him from the chief joy of the average collector, that of showing his treasure to his friends." Raffles is capable of enjoying a thing in solitude. He'd just rather not.
We are not going to talk about Raffles + music or we will be here all night. :) But I'm glad that you agree with the "one will subjugating another" thing. (And yes...you made me relisten to The Sorceror's Apprentice just now too ^_^)
Oh crap, am I going to look through my whole classical music library now for a piece that'll become my own Raffles + Bunny theme song? I am, aren't I? There goes my week...
He does work solo for years before The Ides of March, and again the whole time he's in Italy
And clearly he gets bored after years without an admirer. He snaps up Bunny when he first appears, and then risks jail by trekking across Europe and living under considerable restraints in order to get him back. So he does have one friend to admire the cup while he has it.
Yeah...one of those bittersweet things. Bunny thinks £4000's more than enough for them to restart as honest men -- you get the feeling Raffles gained that amount from whatever unspeakable things he did in Italy, if he could drop £1000 on Theobald at a moment's notice -- so it's a shame that after fetching Bunny they couldn't just...run off and be emu farmers in Australia, or something. I mean what the heck, Raffles. What's keeping you?
He snaps up Bunny when he first appears -- Hehe, yes...quite so. :)
- So maybe he knows all along, at the back of his mind, that how he's remembered depends on Bunny.
I like this very much and am adding it to my head canon.
More seriously: yes, Raffles loves an audience...but he's not completely vain. He does work solo for years before The Ides of March, and again the whole time he's in Italy; he claims to want a quiet, respectable retirement. (He really doesn't, of course, but I think he at least wants to want it.) In A Jubilee Present Bunny notes Raffles' "...infatuation for the cup was, as he declared, a very pure passion, since the circumstances debarred him from the chief joy of the average collector, that of showing his treasure to his friends." Raffles is capable of enjoying a thing in solitude. He'd just rather not.
We are not going to talk about Raffles + music or we will be here all night. :) But I'm glad that you agree with the "one will subjugating another" thing. (And yes...you made me relisten to The Sorceror's Apprentice just now too ^_^)
Oh crap, am I going to look through my whole classical music library now for a piece that'll become my own Raffles + Bunny theme song? I am, aren't I? There goes my week...
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And clearly he gets bored after years without an admirer. He snaps up Bunny when he first appears, and then risks jail by trekking across Europe and living under considerable restraints in order to get him back. So he does have one friend to admire the cup while he has it.
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He snaps up Bunny when he first appears -- Hehe, yes...quite so. :)
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