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To: Savage Beast

Someone posted that Turandot is in China. Perhaps it’s a double entendre, a warning to both lefties and China.


55 posted on 07/21/2024 6:36:56 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Indy Pendance
Turandot is set in China, all right. I can't see a connection between the plot and present US politics.

Prince Calaf is in love with Princess Turandot. (I can't imagine why.) He wants to marry her, and to do so, he must answer three riddles; a wrong answer will result in his execution. He gets 'em right, but she still refuses to marry him. So he tells her that if she is can guess his name before dawn the next day, he will accept death. (Really dumb if you ask me.) A decree goes out that nobody in Peking can sleep until she learns his name and if she can't learn it everybody in town's going to be wiped out. That's when Calaf sings Nessun Dorma. She doesn't guess it. He refers to her as "The Princess of Death." (She had also reneged on her agreement to marry him when he answered the riddles.) Nevertheless he kisses her--and then marries her! (Consummation was probably the biggest challenge yet.)

Who would want her for a wife?

I can't connect this to the present situation, but maybe someone who's smarter than me can.

The homeland of Calaf and his father has been conquered and oppressed by China. Maybe he's hoping to liberate it, but a marriage to "The Princess of Death" is a heavy price.

Maybe this connects to the heavy price Trump has paid for liberating the American People?

The People's Republic of China initially forbade performance of Turandot because they said it portrayed China and the Chinese People unfavorably, but in September 1998 a beautiful performance of it was held in the Forbidden City and broadcast in the USA. Many of us watched. It was very good.

82 posted on 07/21/2024 8:47:03 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America!--President Donald Trump, Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024)
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