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This is the radio drama version, not Robert Graves' original book. Things were lively but Caligula really made them extra so.

Caligula: "immovable rigor", prostituted his sisters, who were aslo forced to learn to dive for sponges in Africa
Claudius's mom's dying words easily sterner than that of Betty Francis, who's a marshmallow in comparison.
Claudius's mistress saved a reserve for them after Claudius was forced to auction his clothes.
Neptune "that saucy fellow"
Claudius's first thought was that as emperor, "I can force people to read my books."

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Nick Hornby was supposed to be a palate cleanser, but it went a bit too much the other way.

All you had to do, it seemed, was ask for an inferior version of the life you’d had before and London would give it to you.”
She'd always suspected that she was the sort of girl who wouldn't go home to see a sick father if she had a shot at a television series, but she'd rather hoped that the news would be revealed slowly, and not for a while yet.
"Oh god," said Monty, "I'm alright with money, I don't mind arguing with them about that, but I've got no experience with punctuation!"
"Oh, if it requires judgement, it can't be good."
(The post-engagement announcement, "I was going to ask her" ->"I'm Sparticus." moment.)
"'Supposed to be'," said Dennis scornfully, "if there ever were a phrase that encapsulated the futility of gossip, that's it!"
If you look at any narrative closely enough, you can trace the unravelling back and back and back, right to the very beginning, if the story is good enough.
Now they had a magnificent skeleton of contention, instead of the original bones.

Feb. 29th, 2016