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[lapsedmodernist]

So apparently Tom Stoppard has several unproduced adapted screenplays--among them, his adaptation of Nicholas Mosley's "Hopeful Monsters." That is perfect. I can't think of any other book that would be a better I candidate for Stoppard's adaptation, and I can't think of anyone besides Stoppard who could adapt the book. In fact, for a long time now, before I found out about this, I thought "Hopeful Monsters" and "Arcadia" spoke to each other, that there was some intertextial dialogue refracted through me, the reader. Echoes of the same ethos, the same way of processing the world. There's that question I always ask people--to come up with a metaphor or a simile for how their mind works. I feel like maybe Mosley and Stoppard would have answers that would somehow fit together, or compliment each other, or at least create some sort of dialectic. Or maybe not, maybe that's just my own projection. But the other cool thing is, apparently Max and Eleanor, the characters in "Hopeful Monsters" are loosely based on Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. I don't know what it means, but since that novel pretty much provides the model for my ideal relationship, that's also kind of perfect.