{"id":21667,"date":"2011-03-15T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=21667"},"modified":"2011-03-15T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T04:00:09","slug":"ides-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/03\/15\/ides-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Ides of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7FvgP5hO99o&amp;feature=related\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7FvgP5hO99o&amp;feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The assassination of Julius Caesar in HBO&#8217;s <\/em>Rome &#8212;<em> ugly, the way these things always are<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frye in one of the notebooks on Renaissance literature:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The liberal who sits &amp; hopes that somebody will assassinate Hitler of McCarthy or Huey Long is Brutus without Brutus&#8217; courage &amp; responsibility. He thinks of such people as destroying human relations by engrossing power. That is, essential social relations to him are the personal ones: he has no tragic conception of society. Antony, with his ruthlessness, his use of others (Lepidus) as &#8220;property,&#8221; his contemptible rhetorical tricks &amp; his exploiting of Caesar&#8217;s will is still able to consolidate a society. He never makes a human contact: his loyalty to Caesar is the exception that proves the rule. . . Caesar does make personal contacts, &amp; makes himself impersonal by an effort of will: as is said, the way to flatter him is to tell him he can&#8217;t be flattered. 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