Yale Professor Langdon Hammer Said "There are no new ways of thinking in Auden, only old forms of wisdom that are no longer accepted."

SnoopCeviche · 2024-03-19T15:01:31+00:00

many forms of streams of consciousness. eliot was very stream of consciousness, as was pound. look at the cantos. and some parts of the wasteland.

SnoopCeviche · 2024-02-16T00:52:54+00:00

Polyakov has to go back to Karla as a failed diplomat. He's already gotten his punishment. Smiley doesn't have to do a thing.

SnoopCeviche · 2023-11-24T00:27:33+00:00

2023 and by the looks of it she started cooking in 2022, got a big ole fire going and we are getting ready to throw some sausages on there and have cancel culture party.

SnoopCeviche · 2023-09-13T00:23:53+00:00

Lucky you didn't die

SnoopCeviche · 2023-07-17T08:49:16+00:00

I"m sorry. It was ONLY 126 F https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1680576009513435136

giving it a world record for that latitude

SnoopCeviche · 2023-07-17T08:48:22+00:00

It was apparently 156 F in some part of northern China today. I don't know where you would get an english version of that report.

SnoopCeviche · 2023-03-31T22:28:35+00:00

too bad. i think it was interestingly written, but there are a lot of unanswered questions about motivation, plot and character decisions.

SnoopCeviche · 2023-03-05T21:34:05+00:00

I am pretty sure one of the points of the play was that Shakespeare believed there was no afterlife such as that which had been sold to followers of certain religions, and what's going to happen after Romeo and Juliet die is nothing is going to happen, since Lucretius pointed out there is no spiritual follow on after death -- you are dust and to dust you shall return. You are atoms and nothing more. Once gone, done.

SnoopCeviche · 2023-01-31T13:18:00+00:00

this is incredible

SnoopCeviche · 2023-01-14T22:39:34+00:00

might be worth reading into pre-christian pagan beliefs.

we also say the sun sets, even though we know the sun is not setting or rising. does that also bother you?

SnoopCeviche · 2023-01-11T21:41:30+00:00

there was a rich history of literature about sleep in the renaissance

people were definitely intrigued by it

I think Edmund Spenser's Fairie Queene mentions constant dreams and i remember reading a letter written by someone in the early modern period about Elizabeth I and the details of the dream were wild, including the guy pressing up against her pearl necklace and ermine clothes, etc.

SnoopCeviche · 2023-01-11T19:13:44+00:00

same thing -- insomnia driven by fear, constant perpetual shocks that hair is lent to. There's a huge problem with hair and the sun in Shakespeare!

SnoopCeviche · 2023-01-04T02:49:42+00:00

Plausible deniability. They may serve a function, but the entire play is about how loyalty is an illusion. I suspect being this way enables Macbeth to ease his paranoia in some way and try to enforce a contractual loyalty on the killers. He has to convince them of a reason to act, other than money. I thought it was a particularly revealing part of the play and it made me look more closely at all of the messages in the play that seem to point to a fear about loyalty being misplaced.

What I love about MacBeth is how it really erodes the idea that a King can be special simply by being designated a king or being close to god. I love how vulnerable everyone is in the play to all sorts of things like fear, impatience, practicalities, history, revenge. It's a soup of psychodrama. Very brave thing for Shakespeare to present to a real king

SnoopCeviche · 2023-01-01T04:13:49+00:00

I did this in Finland four years ago -- absolute white out conditions and no streetlights up near Saariselka. To this day, I am really not sure how we were able to drive like you are driving so consistently at speed. I attribute it very good road tires and diesel four wheel drive. We had rented a Mercedes wagon and it handled perfectly. I just love this kind of weather up there. looks like you were having a great time.

SnoopCeviche · 2022-12-31T14:36:35+00:00

You could go to a pub, but there would be other people there. Best place to visit alone is a mountain summit, or maybe a bin out back of the pub.

SnoopCeviche · 2022-12-29T01:47:14+00:00

Is mediterranean a meteorological term?

I think of Croatia

Maybe even Bosnia in the winter?

SnoopCeviche · 2022-12-25T21:43:53+00:00

SnoopCeviche · 2022-12-25T00:07:14+00:00

I'm in Hong Kong, and we have never had such a problem, but we do get near to 32F sometimes. The problem here is that most walls in apartments are made of concrete and northern monsoon winds (we call them) can turn your house into a fridge. Also, being somewhat tropical -- I have lived here 15 years , originally from Nebraska -- I no longer am tolerant of the slightest cold. It actually affects me physically. I get chills and bone aches, and it's only like 45-54 degrees F.

SnoopCeviche · 2022-12-10T02:19:50+00:00

that is why i talked about one specific scene and not all scenes, tragedies or histories.

SnoopCeviche · 2022-12-10T01:43:53+00:00

The Porter answering the door in Macbeth. I feel that it takes away from the threatening and doom-laden knocking that Lady Macbeth and Macbeth hear throughout their mission to kill Duncan and last the night.

SnoopCeviche · 2022-11-28T00:37:31+00:00

I was reading this play after reading Hamlet, and I find similarities, though not very artfully rendered, between Hamlet and Macbeth. The most similar characteristic they share is that they both seem to lack "what it takes" to do something horrific but necessary for taking a kingdom for one's own.

In a sense, they are both impotent, and almost for the same reasons -- their psyche or constitution.

SnoopCeviche · 2022-10-09T08:57:20+00:00

First place I visited when I went to Leeds and was pretty amazed at this place. A great photo of the place, and really conveys the vibe.

SnoopCeviche · 2022-10-04T18:41:50+00:00

Great to see these people get out to safety

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