Itinerantdaughter's Blog

As my newest obsession these days is Joan of Arc, I decided to engage in a little pitting: former icon vs. current icon.

Both in 3/4 profile!

Reasons why Joan Didion and Joan of Arc are the same:

1. Short haircuts

2. fixed on her “native land”

3. “waifish” figures

4. statuses as icons to melancholy young women with a strong sense of thanatos

5. One degree (in a Kevin Bacon six degree-esque way) from Otto Preminger

Reasons why Joan Didion and Joan of Arc are different

1. Presumably at one point in her life Joan Didion menstruated

2. Joan Didion had a child (though technically neither one bore a child)

3. “[Natasha Richardson’s] first marriage, to the producer Robert Fox, had taken place in my apartment.  She had filled the room with quince blossoms for the ceremony.”

4. Only one led one’s country to military victory

5. Technically, only one Joan has been canonized.

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