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Dostoyevsky’s aesthetic is holding imagined debates in your head and winning all the arguments
There are two types of Proust readers:
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The saga continues
—The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
There are two types of Proust readers:
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Doing the good work for the people and translating Shakespeare as it should be done👍
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Writers and their cats.
Camus named his cat Cigarette.
Foucault called his cat Insanity.
Sartre called his cat Nothing.
William Carlos Williams called his cats Adam and Eve.
Aldous Huxley had a cat called Limbo.
Bonus: Camus and Sartre not knowing how to interact with dogs.
Hamlet, a five act play.
“Well you’re allowed to be happy but not in front of me so let’s movie it down” —William Shakespeare
‘Oh! It is only a novel! It is only “Cecilia”, or “Camilla”, or “Belinda”; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.’
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 40 (via i-never-knew-keats)
Hamlet Sr: dude what happened?
Hamlet Sr: we had a plan
Hamlet:
*****CORRECTION, SORRY
Hamlet:
I know I can't be the only one who just really, unironically loves Romeo and Juliet. Decades of forced readings in English classes and every terrible parody under the sun have ruined it for so many people but it's so good! It's popular for a reason! You're not cool and edgy for hating it! It's gorgeous and tragic and I just. I love r&j a lot.
Good Angel: one should never put a price on something as precious as the soul
Dr Faustus:
Gif source: @animatedtext
What’s the squash for?
Choose your Shakespeare quarantine house! How self indulgent and chaotic do you want it?
House #1
- Drinks wine all day
- Absolutely pissed
- Starts WW3
- Drunk history
House #2
- Titania: “Ok guys, house meeting–
- Henry V: *is half way out of window*
- Tuesday is “Lads Night”
- Titania has banned “Lads night”
House #3
- Rip Brutus
House #4
- It’s all jokes until 45 minutes in
- Everyone cries
- Hamlet: Denmark’s a prison
- Mercutio: Dude, the WORLD is in quarantine
House #5
- Weirdly productive
- Finds cure to virus
- Begins world domination
House #6
- Lots of screaming
- Alliances form
- Richard II and Horatio find out they both like Lorde
- Richard III and Nurse bond over Hell’s Kitchen
- Shakespeare thinks he’s having a weird fever dream which he is and spends all his time sleeping
- He’s set his alarm for: “when this is all over”
Hamlet: *pretends to be mad*
Claudius:
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Self-isolation, 2020
chidi-anagonye
And then I said
You know, like a liar
And then I said
You know, like a liar
Jane Austen: *creates Mr Darcy, Mr Knightley, Captain Wentworth and Mr Tilney*
Me:
What I love is this post has caused a lot of discourse in the tags. People are like, why are Edmund Bertram and Edward Ferrars not there? Like, you know why.
I respect you but is Mr Tilney’s career a joke to you?