Fantasies of Time and Death by Anna Vaninskaya;
Author:Anna Vaninskaya;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137518385
Publisher: Springer Nature
Antiope is, of course, dead, and Lessingham himself is killed the following second, but the âflashââlike the flash of lightning in the night over Ambremerine which lifts the veil on eternity âsuspends the successive nature of time and illuminates the simultaneity of moments. They are all folded up in this final scene: the opening moment of Mistress of Mistresses when Lessingham, drinking wine in Mornagay, first experiences an intimation of the nature of reality and hears Aphroditeâs/Antiopeâs voice; the moment in the throne-room, another âworld-without-end hourâ, when the Duke first recognises Lessinghamâs identity with Fiorinda (106; see also 279); the moment of the two menâs meeting after Antiopeâs death, when they face each other, as before, with a third presence âperceived but by them alone ⦠present strangely to the Duke in the person of Lessingham, and to Lessingham in the Dukeâ, each man perceiving in the other the near-incarnation of his female ideal (280). Whether in male or female dress, Aphrodite makes her presence felt in these encounters. The divine wells through the mortal and raises it, for that moment, âbeyond time and circumstanceâ: the words that describe not just the love between Lessingham and Antiope, but the intimate male brotherhood between Lessingham and Barganax (106, 257).
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