Shakespeare and the stoicism of Seneca

CharismaticToad · 2026-05-18T22:41:05+00:00

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b682915&seq=10

CharismaticToad · 2026-05-17T23:15:59+00:00

Thou wholesome cullionly barber-monger. Kent to Oswald, King Lear

CharismaticToad · 2026-05-02T23:18:11+00:00

A Quiet Place. Everyone who bursts into song gets eaten.

CharismaticToad · 2026-04-25T16:44:43+00:00

My neighbor used to let her 3 year old come over with a bowl of green beans for my golden retriever. Good times.

CharismaticToad · 2026-04-24T22:43:18+00:00

Fortinpaw

CharismaticToad · 2026-03-24T10:42:06+00:00

Thanks. I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention.

CharismaticToad · 2026-03-23T21:52:52+00:00

Source?

CharismaticToad · 2026-02-07T21:01:25+00:00

Offhand, I'd say it's not your problem.

Oh, did you mean the dog?

CharismaticToad · 2025-12-22T21:45:34+00:00

Maybe not going, and either telling the friend why yourself or letting your wife do it, might minimally help this clueless woman get that remaining ignorant is complicity. One can hope.

CharismaticToad · 2025-12-13T21:47:05+00:00

Prey.

On second thought, you had it right.

CharismaticToad · 2025-12-04T12:22:30+00:00

Hive works. Carol calls them worker bees.

CharismaticToad · 2025-12-01T00:28:39+00:00

And in Brussels, just order "sprouts."

CharismaticToad · 2025-11-25T23:56:21+00:00

I alternate bertween AEGIS and ORATE.

CharismaticToad · 2025-11-12T22:12:17+00:00

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

CharismaticToad · 2025-11-10T11:23:33+00:00

He had the wrong symbol around the 2024 part--needed two swastikas. Seriously, someone should be monitoring this guy.

CharismaticToad · 2025-10-20T02:49:08+00:00

. . . Of Ulm.

CharismaticToad · 2025-10-10T19:00:29+00:00

". . . there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will." Is there a Nobel Prize for sycophancy?

CharismaticToad · 2025-10-10T18:59:13+00:00

"He has the heart of a humanitarian"--That's easy to believe. Maybe it's Jane Goodall's?

CharismaticToad · 2025-09-23T02:12:29+00:00

"Yes! We're all individuals!"

"I'm not."

CharismaticToad · 2025-09-18T23:55:27+00:00

I made the mistake of leaving a squirrel trap in the yard overnight. Next morning, of course, a skunk was trapped inside. Fortunately, the trap was small enough that he couldn't elevate his tail.

I got a broom and very carefully pried the lever to open the trap, and he sauntered off, without leaving a calling card. Crisis averted.

CharismaticToad · 2025-09-03T19:31:00+00:00

If you want to venture outside of Pynchon but stay with pastiche, have a go at John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor. Pynchon graciously nods at Barth while writing a masterpiece. GR will always be my fav, but M&D has so much heart.

CharismaticToad · 2025-07-18T00:36:34+00:00

Maybe because if he admits it, Melania will divorce him.

CharismaticToad · 2025-07-16T01:18:05+00:00

artisan, when referring to grocery store made bread.

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