The Fall of the House of ______
This thread turned out to be so interesting, it's gotten me thinking even more about incest in literature and what it stands for. Unfortunately I really haven't read any lit crit on the subject. I have a feeling I'll be surfing around today looking for some. The weird thing, too, is that the subject seems to tie in with other recent subjects on
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Exactly! It's your family history--even if it's bad, it's still your family. There's no reason to deny it. It drives me crazy whenever I see anything like that. The thing is, even people who hate a lot of these old institutions surely take pride in their own history. It's part of what makes us different and special.
And it would bother me as well to see them reduced to poverty and unimportance. Those creatures are born and bred to be aristocratic and their existence makes the world a more colourful place.
Me too. Yes. I mean, of course I think wealthier people should contribute to the care of people who have less so that everyone has the basics of care. But I don't resent people for hitting it big and being fabulously wealthy. I like having that possibility there even if I don't ever live it myself. I don't think aristocrats are better than I am, but I like having them in the world. There's a reason why during the depression all those high comedies were so popular, with rich people living fabulous lives.
Maybe it's just that my mother and her mother always seemed to aspire to that sort of thing in a way I find amusing. Like my mother told me her mother always made it very clear that their family was slightly better than everybody else on the block because they had "come down in the world." Of course, she was never clear on exactly where they'd come down *from.* I just find that endearing.
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