Lizzie Greystock has a Trump-like phrase for escaping accountability: “incorrect version of the facts.”
Tag Archives: Anthony Trollope
Pilfered Files, Eustace Diamonds
I compare Trump with Lizzy Greystock in Trollope’s “Eustace Diamonds”–government files for him, diamond necklace for her.
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Trollope & Trump’s Congressional Enablers
By continuing their support for Donald Trump, GOP leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are choosing their party and their careers over country. In doing so, they resemble Anthony Trollope’s Sir Timothy Beeswax, Conservative leader in the Palliser novels..
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Trollope’s Melmotte Anticipates Trump
Anthony Trollope foreshadowed Donald Trump in the figure of Augustus Melmotte in “The Way We Live Now” (1875).
Trollope & Trump’s Willing Enablers
Trollope describes gentry who enable to a scandalous financier in “The Way We Live Now.” Parallels can be drawn with those members of the GOP who are reconciling with Donald Trump.
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Donne’s Lovers, Spooky at a Distance
Tuesday Adam Gopnik makes some nice literary allusions in a recent New Yorker essay-review of George Musser’s Spooky at a Distance, which is about the history of quantum entanglement theory. Entanglement, also known as non-locality and described by Einstein as “spooky at a distance,” claims that two particles of a single wave function can influence each other, even […]
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Trollope and Patriarchal Marriage
My portraying traditional Victorian marriages, Anthony Trollope exposes the pathologies that came with them.
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Trollope on Conservatives vs. Liberals
Anthony Trollope has wise things to say about the differences between conservatives and liberals in “Prime Minister.”