Arnie Perlstein

Literary sleuth re shadow stories of Austen & Shakespeare

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

Austen’s 6 novels are double stories (2 parallel fictional worlds) undetected for 200 yrs https://t.co/tHP90ZwLmx https://t.co/ysjqvv5iY4

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@mariachong Yes! browse my blog, u’ll see that I’ve long read S&S & MP such that both Edwd & Edmd aren’t heroes at all, but are deceitful, selfish hypocrites. Thompson’s film gave Edwd the same moral makeover that Nolan’s does for Odysseus, erasing Austen’s feminist subversions.

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@mariachong Thanks for linking to my 2010 blog post! I had forgotten i noted the Odyssey allusion in Loiterer 9 - yesterday I was thinking about a subversive Austen allusion- can u guess which austen characters remind me of Calypso and Odysseus in another Austen besides Persuasion?

[Percy @percyishim]

NBA star Dwyane Wade says he noticed signs that his then son (now daughter), Zaya Wade, was transgender as early as age 3 and supported her throughout her journey.

“This is at 3 years old”

“We had basketball, baseball and we’d be like hey let’s play this and my child will be like ‘I don’t want that. Dad I want to take dance lessons”

“And I was like okay let’s go to dance”

“I had a child that when I got home, she got the shirt wrapped around her hair like it’s like long hair”

“I got a child at home that I’m watching wear certain things that’s different from what I’d buy for my son”

“This is at 3 years old”

“So me and my wife we had a conversation about it and instead of walking in and saying heyyy stop that shit like people try to do it was my job to slowly let her be who she wanted to be”

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@InuitKodiak How about Rethinkers?

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@InuitKodiak @ArmandDAngour So there will be no punnishment?

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@InuitKodiak I just saw your above follow up tweet – I am a self styled literary sleuth specializing in what I call the shadow stories of Jane Austen and Shakespeare, and interested in their respective vast penumbrae. I have 28 years of online group discussion experience

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@InuitKodiak I am interested, to the extent that literature and film would be part of the subject matter for the group.

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

Now and Then:
Top 30 Beatles song
Top 10 Lennon song:
Lennon’s haunting, measured vocal
Seeming simple, but actual complex harmonic progression
Perfect backup vocals/instruments by other Beatles, & tasteful orchestra
Profound simple poetic lyrics - a later life wiser In My Life

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@arealmofwonder @AusteninBoston I’ll have tea with Jane Austen 3 times

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@uncouthswain Thanx for follow! Your article covers territory very familiar to me because Milton is my #3 behind Austen & Shakespeare - it fits with my take on Fanny's roses & a 2d Austen heroine's travails. I could email you about it if you'd like -also, r u going to Utah Milton conf in Oct?

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@LouiseGund Speaking of Shakespeare, please take a look at my response to your tweet from last year about the doubling of the roles of Mercutio and Friar Laurence

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@LouiseGund Would you like to hear about an interpretation of the play in which Mercutio's and Friar Laurence's roles are not contrasted at all?

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

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[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Cecilia Wang (my coclerk for Justice Breyer and law school classmate) just gave a brilliant Supreme Court argument against President Trump’s attempt to take away birthright citizenship.

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@jacqueboatman @josephus77 I agree, especially when you read them alongside one particular Shakespeare play

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@JoyceCarolOates The things I would tell her about Jane Austen would blow her mind

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Whatever the outcome in Texas tonight, Democrats will have three additional month to heal whatever wounds linger from their senate race, while the Republicans likely are looking at three months of trench warfare.

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@JoyceCarolOates If you want to hear an argument for why Austen significantly altered literary history, including hugely influencing C Bronte, G Eliot, A Trollope, H James, M Twain, J Joyce, & FS Fitzgerald, among others –– and the Beatles, too! –– I'd be happy to present it to you

[Arnie Perlstein @JaneAustenCode]

@SusanPolgar White can kill the black pawn when to becomes a queen, then white can get a queen and trap the black king in less than 21 moves

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Just because CBS kneels to Trump doesn’t mean the rest of us have to.

Pass this along on every one of your social media accounts.

Make sure it is seen far and wide in our country.