Menas and Menecrates Are Not Dead

[lareinenoire]

Title: Menas and Menecrates Are Not Dead
Author: lareinenoire
Play/Poem: Antony and Cleopatra
Recipient: gileonnen
Rating: PG
Summary: Two underutilised pirates ponder free will, politics, geography, meteorology, love, and the relative vintages of wines grown in volcanic soil.
Warnings: Silliness, gossiping pirates, unexpected revelations about human nature, canonical

Comments

[gileonnen]

Heee, this is spectacular! I love their wit and their pragmatism and their optimism--not for anyone else, that is, but certainly for themselves. Whatever happens to the great ones of Rome, Menas and Menecrates will be quite all right and acquiring goods through shady means. It's like the perfect counterpart to R&GAD with its incredible existential dread; I adore it. ^__^

(Also. PIRATES.)

[lareinenoire]

Yay!! I am so thrilled you liked it -- I just couldn't see those two going gently into that dark night, as it were. They would totally go off and continue to swindle people for the rest of their days and everyone would be okay with that.

[likeadeuce]

"Another Caesar," Menas said with a shake of his head. "Will they never learn?"

"They never do."

Indeed! This is great fun and I love the twist on Stoppard.

[lareinenoire]

Thank you! And nobody ever seems to learn that Caesars are just not a good idea, do they?

[speak_me_fair]

Oh, this made me laugh in pure delight! They are so very gossipy - it's perfect and wistful and a little wry, and it made me smile like a perfect loon.

[lareinenoire]

Yay! That was exactly the point -- they are totally the type of pirates who would sit around and gossip about the people they've just robbed.

[gehayi]

I love these two. They're so very practical and matter-of-fact about it all. Oh, well, Cleopatra and Antony are dead. Bet get out of Rome and find somewhere far away to make a proper living as pirates. And yet they have a sense of humor about it, as well as an unstated conviction that of course they'll be fine, how could they NOT be?

Also, I'm mentally picturing their descendants being smugglers in Cornwall.

[lareinenoire]

Also, I'm mentally picturing their descendants being smugglers in Cornwall.

Oh, yes! They SO would be!

And, really, pirates do so much better when they don't get involved in politics.

[kitsune13]

This is HILARIOUS. I love how you've captured the R&G are Dead spirit, but have made it into something highly specific and hilarious. I love the narrative voice: you have such a gift for creating unique, engaging voices that are so fully themselves, but also you.

[lareinenoire]

Thank you so much! I love playing around with narrative voice and I'm so glad it works!