About to read Titus Adronicus. A cursory scan at the relevant Wikipedia page makes it sound like the Shakespearean answer to a Hollywood slasher-cum-gorefest (all the rage in Elizabethan times, it would seem).
Recently finished The Taming of the Shrew which, meaning no disrespect to those feminazis in the audience, is quite amusing, particularly for the long banter when Petruccio and Katherine first meet. Also, the constant repitition of themline "Kiss me, Kate" kept reminding me of P.G. Wodehouse. That, not to mention the fact that every romcom starring either Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant is apparently a ripoff of Shrew, made itfeel like it was written yesterday. Ormthis morning.
Also love how you have the whole 'Induction' frame w/o a concluding segment.
30 March, 2013
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23 March, 2013
King Henry VI Part 2
Read through the 2 Henry VI today (trying to finish the Complete Shakespeare prior to reading Bloom's The Invention of the Human and Greenblatt's Will in the World). Notes:
1. Aio, te, Æacida, romanos vincere posse - Ambiguous Latin oracle that can be understand either as "I say, Aeacidas, that you can defeat the Romans," or, "I say, Aeacidas, that the Romans can defeat you.
2. Tantæ ne animis cælestibus iræ? - Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods? (From Aeneid I.11)
3. "'Tis politicly done" = ultimate political commentary title.
4. Invitis nubibus - Unsure. Based on Interweb: either, a.) Obscured by clouds; or b.) Despite cloiuds.
5. Bezonian - A knave or rascal. [From Italian bisogno ill-equipped recruit; lit.: need. (Also, presumably, French besoin).]
6. Quillet - A verbal nicety, a subtle distinction; a frivolous or evasive argument; a quibble.
1. Aio, te, Æacida, romanos vincere posse - Ambiguous Latin oracle that can be understand either as "I say, Aeacidas, that you can defeat the Romans," or, "I say, Aeacidas, that the Romans can defeat you.
2. Tantæ ne animis cælestibus iræ? - Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods? (From Aeneid I.11)
3. "'Tis politicly done" = ultimate political commentary title.
4. Invitis nubibus - Unsure. Based on Interweb: either, a.) Obscured by clouds; or b.) Despite cloiuds.
5. Bezonian - A knave or rascal. [From Italian bisogno ill-equipped recruit; lit.: need. (Also, presumably, French besoin).]
6. Quillet - A verbal nicety, a subtle distinction; a frivolous or evasive argument; a quibble.
20 March, 2013
Brief Soliloquoy on the Relative Merits of Spanish & German as Psychological Weapons
Question: If you were to meet a sociopathic ex-boxer in the immediate vicinity of a prison, would you feel more threatened if A: He snarled "Ich kann Deutsch," or B: He bubbled "Hablo espanol,"?
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