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[poliphilo]

 Fancy us already being a month into 2025!

I want to be saying that Marianne Faithful was always more interesting than her sometime partner Mick Jagger but that would be unfair. Lets just say she never stopped being cool. 

Nostromo is Joseph Conrad's most ambitious novel but also the one which most flagrantly displays his limitations- which are that he could only write about Europeans and never treated the indigenous population of the exotic locations he favoured as anything more than background noise. It isn't his masterpiece. His masterpiece is The Secret Agent- which is entirely set in London.

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[mtbc]

I'd not noticed The Secret Agent, thank you, I see Project Gutenberg has it.

[poliphilo]

Enjoy!

[paserbyp]

Marianne Faithful mother, Eva, was the daughter of Artur Wolfgang, Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1875–1953), an Austro-Hungarian nobleman of old Polonized Catholic Ruthenian nobility. Eva chose to style herself as Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso.Eva had been a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

Faithfull's father met Eva through his intelligence work for the British Army, which brought him into contact with her family. Faithfull's maternal grandfather had aristocratic roots in the Habsburg Dynasty, and Faithfull's maternal grandmother was Jewish.

Faithfull's maternal great-great-uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose erotic novel, Venus in Furs, spawned the word "masochism." Regarding her roots in the Austrian nobility, Faithfull appeared on the British television series Who Do You Think You Are?, which discussed that the title used by family members was Ritter von Sacher-Masoch.

https://youtu.be/_phZZgkT1Jk?si=nlpBmdKNuSDR6F5y

[poliphilo]

Interesting family background, interesting life....