Deviant Opera FANTASY Or maybe it's a war

Or maybe it's a war on culture - a war with a deeper and more troubling history than you might think

the core of the book is a series of interconnected "idea essays

from Flannery O'Connor's rural South

idiosyncratic

Deviant Opera FANTASY Or maybe it's a warImagine Armida, Handels Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozarts peasant girl Zerlina, meanwhile, is tying up and blindfolding her fianc to seduce him out of his jealousy of Don Giovanni. And how about Wagners wizard, Klingsor, ensnaring his choir of flower