{"id":21155,"date":"2013-07-18T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21155"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:35:42","slug":"qotd-it-does-however-answer-the-question-can-an-orgy-be-tedious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/18\/qotd-it-does-however-answer-the-question-can-an-orgy-be-tedious\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: It does, however, answer the question &#8220;can an orgy be tedious?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We open to an orgy in a god&#8217;s sex cave.<\/p>\n<p>No. Really.<\/p>\n<p>Tannhauser, a bard in the Germanic middle ages, is the boy-toy of Venus, eternal goddess of hot sex that you thought would be totally worth all her baggage but in the long run isn&#8217;t. Remember the wisdom of the bros: even if he or she is literally an unearthly gorgeous sex god, somewhere there is someone who is sick of putting up with his or her bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>Tannhauser and Venus are shacked up at Venus&#8217; place, which with typical German lyricism is called &#8220;Venusburg.&#8221; Tannhauser and Venus are lounging in bed. They&#8217;re watching a dance\/orgy\/cage match among Naiads, Sirens, the Three Graces, fauns, satyrs, nymphs, Baccchantes, and cupids. No, really. I could quote the libretto I just linked, but even the description of this is abusively long. Wagner could have just said &#8220;enter the entire <em>Monster Manual<\/em>, which humps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the ballet. There&#8217;s no dialogue, and it&#8217;s not Wagner&#8217;s best music, though it&#8217;s not terrible. It does, however, answer the question &#8220;can an orgy be tedious?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ken White, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2013\/07\/17\/popehat-goes-to-the-opera-tannhauser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;<em>Popehat<\/em> Goes To The Opera: Tannhauser&#8221;, <em>Popehat<\/em><\/a>, 2013-07-17<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We open to an orgy in a god&#8217;s sex cave. No. Really. Tannhauser, a bard in the Germanic middle ages, is the boy-toy of Venus, eternal goddess of hot sex that you thought would be totally worth all her baggage but in the long run isn&#8217;t. Remember the wisdom of the bros: even if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,41],"tags":[86,200,822],"class_list":["post-21155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-criticism","tag-music","tag-mythology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65622,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21155\/revisions\/65622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}