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Marissa and my MiL and I went to "Patience" today at the Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company. I had forgotten how very pointy this one is; among the targets are:
* dukes
* poets
* the aesthetic movement
* moralizing poetry
* weird poetic pronunciations
* true love
* the British army's self-image
* men dressing in ways that impress other men, and assuming it's attractive to women !! (this might be a modern gloss but it's kind of explicitly there in the plot too)
* women getting old (I think I side with Sullivan on this, what the hell was Gilbert's hang-up)It gives me great joy to imagine W.S. sitting down and saying "today I have to write some bad poetry" and probably having to throw out the first couple versions as not bad enough.