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1-800-The Princess Cassamissima · 1-800-1800

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  yeah but I think James is kind of like doing saying something
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  interesting about
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  like the aesthetics of revolution which is something that I'm
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  always kind of also
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  SPEAKER_01: interested in which is like there's obviously something attractive about
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  but the reason Lady Aurora is more productive than Princess
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  Casamissima in terms of
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  actually making substantive difference in this novel is because
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  she's ugly oh my
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  god there's such good scenes about that do you know what I mean
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  there's something
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  about the incompatibility of beauty and understanding what
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  actually needs to happen
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  SPEAKER_01: to make the world better that I'm obsessed with in this book
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so good.
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  I'm looking through my notes and I just found this quote where
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  Paul,
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  I think,
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  complains.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: the princess is not a system,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is not the quote I'm looking for,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's really good.
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  that is really good no woman is a system yeah um yeah I think I
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  found the lady
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  Aurora section where she talks about how ugly she is it is
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  hilarious 30 pages long
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  SPEAKER_00: yeah no I think you're absolutely right and you know
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  basically Hyacinth's fear about the revolution is that if it
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  goes through you would
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  have to slice up all the great paintings in the National
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  Gallery you would have to
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  like he says at some point he says something about the Elgin
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  marbles he's like some
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  things are not meant to be shared and there's I feel like
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  that's like irony of
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  irony is because the Elgin marbles were stolen he's like
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  talking about how
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  SPEAKER_01: beautiful they are in the context of already having been plundered