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...friend I find no blame”/ “Wanna look in my eyes please do”/ “No one can ever claim that I took up arms against you.” That’s another Ovid intertext, addressed to the emperor Augustus back then: Tristia, 2.51-53: “no one can claim that I ever took up arms against...
Murray is the metaphorical Emperor and the centripetal personality of the novel. The paradigmatic public intellectual, he invests himself—and is invested by those around him—with an aura of wisdom and moral grandeur...
...only one who comes to grasp the chasm between appearances and reality in the whorling world of New York high society. He begins to see the real Murray behind the sententious veneer, and is the only one with the courage and acumen to cry out: “The Emperor has no clothes...
...Emperor's Children By Claire Messud Knopf...
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived in Japan for a four-day visit Wednesday, will be feted with all the traditional state visit perks, including meetings with top Japanese corporate leaders and a ceremony with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. But by also according Singh the unusual honor of addressing a joint session of the Japanese parliament, the Diet, Tokyo is signaling just how seriously Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking the summit with Singh...