Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

When the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, came out, I read it. Meh. When the film version came out, I saw it. Meh. But in the second act, Lecter and the Florentine detective (Giancarlo Giannini) attend a modern opera based on Dante's sonnets, with music by Patrick Cassidy. We hear Vide Cor Meum, sung by soprano Danielle de Niesse and tenor Bruno Lazzaretti. Stunning! Cassidy turned it into a full opera twenty years later.

 Note at his behest: bet on toot or quit.

  "...mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men."

O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.

  "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania..."

 

 Did the condom people not read their Homer at all? The whole point was that the Trojans inadvertently ALLOWED in what they were trying to keep out!