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Posted By: Andrew Louis Mackenna

Posted On: Feb 5, 2008
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Ex Libris Prospero

Dear Peter. I am an admirer of your works, of 'vertiginous, arcane erudition' the power of intellect and divergent thinking (quoting from a Sight and Sound issue (5/91)). The release of one's genetic information is naturally a most absorbing pre-occupation also. My own efforts here have been...unfulfilling, to adapt Shakespeare myself: 'since I cannot prove a lover to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a book collector. And hate the idle pleasures of these days'... You had referred to Darwin at the end of this 1991 interview with Adam Barker and to your assessment: 'so what I do now, between [your daughters] birth and [your] death is just embellishing the nest a little.' Well, coupled to this sombre truth was your mention of two books to be published along with the script of Prospero's Books - both intriguing embellishments, and I cannot help feeling sorry to hold you to them. The first ...'a companion novel to the film which imagines the voyage back to Naples after the play is over. Miranda becomes a constant source of irritation to the conventional courtiers around her - partly due to her enduring virginal behaviour(??), and partly because of the unconventional ideas which have been drummed into her by her father, from anti-clericalism to the dangerous new ideas of scientific reason.' And secondly, 'Ex Libris Prospero...extracts [perhaps more comprehensive, and illustrated, from the wonderful summaries provided in the script] - from the apocryphal books'.
I would ask, with deepest respect, if you could reconsider completing their writing and publication...before I tell Umberto Eco all about it.
Yours sincerely
Andrew Mackenna
15 Nairn St.
Spreydon, Christchurch 8204,
New Zealand
DOB 12/63


Posted By: Lachlan12

Posted On: Apr 30, 2021
Views: 47
RE: Ex Libris Prospero

Good work


 

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