08-03-2016, 08:09 AM
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"Toughen up Princesses!"
Fat chance – Princess Hood is dancing the dance of the seven veils; or should that be fails? Anyway, the art form of the seven veils is to never, ever really show any tits or bum, but to titillate the audience, with glimpses of forbidden treasures. The ‘real’ story of Salome is not quite so ‘cute’; much like the ATSB saga, where a ‘head on a plate’ was demanded as the price for the ‘the dance’. Blood, lust, power, deceit, deception, corruption for political gain; just the usual, run-of-the-mill grist.
The difference this turn around is that Princess Hood will be the one who looses her head should any glimpse of the scabs, pustules, boils and warts be seen by the audience. The threat of summary execution will keep the princess on her toes, but what when the music stops? The dance of Mildura, Norfolk and many other ‘horror’ stories are still waiting in the wings. Keep dancing, just keep ducking and weaving. Oh, and make sure the invisible Manning keeps winding the gramophone handle, lest the music stops.
From WIKI:-
Fat chance – Princess Hood is dancing the dance of the seven veils; or should that be fails? Anyway, the art form of the seven veils is to never, ever really show any tits or bum, but to titillate the audience, with glimpses of forbidden treasures. The ‘real’ story of Salome is not quite so ‘cute’; much like the ATSB saga, where a ‘head on a plate’ was demanded as the price for the ‘the dance’. Blood, lust, power, deceit, deception, corruption for political gain; just the usual, run-of-the-mill grist.
The difference this turn around is that Princess Hood will be the one who looses her head should any glimpse of the scabs, pustules, boils and warts be seen by the audience. The threat of summary execution will keep the princess on her toes, but what when the music stops? The dance of Mildura, Norfolk and many other ‘horror’ stories are still waiting in the wings. Keep dancing, just keep ducking and weaving. Oh, and make sure the invisible Manning keeps winding the gramophone handle, lest the music stops.
From WIKI:-
Quote:The idea that Salome's dance involves "seven veils" originates with Wilde's 1891 play Salomé. Wilde was influenced by earlier French writers who had transformed the image of Salome into an incarnation of female lust. Rachel Shteir writes that,#bringbackalan
To the French, Salome was not a woman at all, but a brute, insensible force: Huysmans refers to her as "the symbolic incarnation of undying Lust … the monstrous Beast, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible"; and Mallarmé describes her as being inscrutable: "the veil always remains." Huysmans' hero Des Esseintes characterizes her as a "weird and superhuman figure he had dreamed of. … [I]n her quivering breasts, … heaving belly, … tossing thighs … she was now revealed as the symbol incarnate of old world vice.