![]() Outlaw.Ī Noiser production, written by Danny Marshall, with thanks to Paul Schneider, journalist and author of Bonnie and Clyde – The Lives Behind The Legend.įor ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. In a few short years his run-ins with the law will transform him into a hardened killer.īut it won’t be until he meets the love of his life that he’ll step into the national spotlight. So it’s no surprise when young Clyde Barrow strays into a life of crime. Amongst the tents and wagons, the dispossessed scrap it out for survival. In Dallas, Texas, under the Trinity River viaduct - life is hard. ![]() If we write "star-crossed lovers" in most contexts in the 21st century then the phrase is metaphorical in the same way that calling someone 'phlegmatic' is metaphorical, but in the late 16th and early 17th centuries when Shakespeare was writing all educated people accepted the validity of astrology and the existence of the 'four humours of the body' so 'star-crossed' and 'phlegmatic' were literal uses of technical terms for them.It’s the early 1930s. From our perspective it is metaphorical but from Shakespeare's perspective it was not. You don't have to believe in astrology, and certainly not in the fixed fate interpretation of it, to consider that Renaissance people would have taken the term literally. ![]() ![]() A true believer in astrology would, of course, say that there are also aspects of the combined charts which led them to fall in love in the first place. Four planets with square aspects to each other can form a "Grand Cross" which is considered to be a very negative element of a chart). In detail there will be aspects of the planets (wandering stars) and other parts of the charts which have powerful ninety degree angles between them (a ninety degree angle is a 'square aspect' in astrology and is usually considered to be an indicator of negative forces operating on the subject of the chart. 'Star-crossed' is, effectively, a technical term in astrology indicating that there are aspects of the charts of the two lovers which, when compared, show that the forces of fate will tear them apart or, at least, prevent them from being happy together. ![]() 'Star-crossed lovers' are two people who, although in love, have natal charts which are 'crossed'. ![]()
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