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The real Cyrano de Bergerac (the-tls.co.uk)
6 points by pshaw on March 12, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I recently saw the documentary Catfish, and was struck by the similarities to the Cyrano play. It's interesting how Cyrano gets the audience's sympathy even though he is a blatant manipulator. In Catfish, the woman with the corresponding role gets painted as borderline psychotic, which may be warranted. There are other differences as well, but it's interesting how big a difference the gender swap makes.


> Earth turns and is not the immobile centre of a revolving universe

Well that's never been an heresy and was not exactly the point of Galileo's trial




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