Eep. This is the sound of fannish meeping

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We lost thamiris some years back to breast cancer.
I miss her often, and more so now that I'm having an SV revival.

But this essay... Oh my dear. It categorizes everything so nicely.

http://thamiris.livejournal.com/152779.html

mecurtinpointed out that the notorious hug scene in Phoenix occurs with an aria from Gounod's Faust playing in the background, implying that Lex is making a deal with the devil. But I'd like to adjust the meaning of this scene: I think it's Lex who is the metaphorical Lucifer, not Lionel. There's only one niche in Western culture grand enough for Lionel, complicated, arbitrary, mysterious, all-power, and that's God himself.

I don't recognize most music, in fact, I hear very little of the dialogue. But this, which I would have written off as another Brimstone allusion, gets made into some very interesting analysis.

I will now go meep with geeky meta happiness for a while more before bed.