mutilating the Arts

[sergebroom]

"With my last breath I implore you. Do not mutilate the Arts."

- Leo Genn's Petronius to Peter Ustinov's Nero in Quo Vadis. Nero, to put it mildly, does not take that criticism very kindly.

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Of course he wouldn't. He was Apollo incarnate. Gods, famously, don't like being told what to do.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

They just don't make gods like that anymore. Or don't they?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Depends on what Shrub thinks he is.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

To be fair, he-whose-True-Name-I-shan't-utter probably thinks of himself not as a god but as the Envoy of one.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

You're probably right.