[Antoninus]

However, if you were to write a short treatment with the satirical premise of how unjustly maligned were Nero and Caligula, and send it to Hollywood, it might become the basis for a rather serious dramatic made-for-TV movie, with the straightforward premise of how unjustly maligned were Nero and Caligula.

You're right, of course. Which is why I would never send such a thing to Hollyweird. I'd make a book out of it and publish it myself in a form that made it obvious to anyone reading it that it was satire. ;-)

[sitetest]

Dear Antoninus,

"I'd make a book out of it and publish it myself in a form that made it obvious to anyone reading it that it was satire."

You'd have to make sure that not a single copy fell into the hands of earnest left-wingers, else you'd still see a mini-series, "The Hidden Torments of the Emperors".


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