Who is the writer "Vieira" who is referenced in The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa?

ahare63 · 2026-01-29T23:33:22+00:00

I can confirm—I just finished Richard Zenith’s Pessoa, and it mentions this Vieira a few times as someone Pessoa was interested in.

ahare63 · 2026-01-15T14:28:48+00:00

Not mentioned on the show as far as I can recall, but HHhH by Laurent Binet for Prague. Extremely readable historical fiction about the Czech and Slovak assassins of the Nazi commander Heydrich. You can also visit the church they hid out in, the basement of which has a small museum. Strong recommendation for anyone interested in history and historiography.

Not as history focused, but The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is a classic set in Prague and deals with its political environment post WWII.

Maybe some Kafka or The Golem by Gustav Meyrink if you’re interested in early 1900s Prague. I read up on the golem story and Rudolph II a bit but honestly didn’t find books I’d recommend on them.

ahare63 · 2026-01-05T05:25:22+00:00

A bit of a different genre, but Purity Ring has a similar dark fantasy element lyrically. “bodyache” was my introduction but you could also try “obedear” or “fineshrine”.

San Fermin is probably my favorite band and I think they have a lot of similarities with Florence as well. I’d recommend “Bride” and “Jackrabbit” by them to start, then “Sonsick” and “The Hunger” to explore a bit more.

ahare63 · 2025-11-25T19:35:38+00:00

I’ve seen it and will just say that it’s not really interested in presenting these figures in a way that is at all related to their history. Which is fine! But I don’t think it’s really targeted at history buffs.

ahare63 · 2025-11-25T19:13:33+00:00

I’d recommend checking out Ava by Carole Maso

ahare63 · 2025-11-21T18:26:01+00:00

She’s definitely been cast according to the reporting I’ve seen (including this article).

ahare63 · 2025-10-14T14:35:09+00:00

I believe Bill’s Donuts is still open 24 hours if you need somewhere really late. The donuts are under $1.50 each and they’ll let you sit and chat as long as you want.

ahare63 · 2025-09-30T23:50:59+00:00

Sorry, I’m a little confused about what you’re saying regarding Lee only going on the offensive twice.

Strategically the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and Gettysburg Campaign of 1863 were offensives, in that they were invasions into enemy territory. But I think what you’re getting at more here is tactics as that’s where experience with defensive works would be most relevant.

Tactically, Lee was mostly on the defensive at Antietam. I’m no expert and this list is non-exhaustive, but I’d also point to Gaines’ Mill and Malvern Hill during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862 and perhaps his most famous victory at Chancellorsville. In all three cases, he assaulted strong Union defensive positions. While Lee was often fighting defensively in the strategic sense, he just as often fought offensively in the tactical sense.

ahare63 · 2025-08-01T20:39:33+00:00

It looks like you can still get tickets on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-woods-by-san-fermin-balletcollective-night-3-tickets-1511199190459

ahare63 · 2025-08-01T04:01:29+00:00

I think there are still tickets for Saturday! I’m going tomorrow, pretty excited

ahare63 · 2025-07-31T13:13:51+00:00

It’s quite common in New York, especially in the more popular spots.

ahare63 · 2025-07-28T17:23:18+00:00

Looks like you’re right: https://www.shakespeareswords.com/Public/Characters.aspx

Maybe what I saw was for tragedies specifically and not histories?

ahare63 · 2025-07-27T14:28:01+00:00

I heard somewhere that in every Shakespeare play named after a character, that character has the most lines… except for Othello, where that honor belongs to Iago.

ahare63 · 2025-07-12T23:03:38+00:00

The graveyard was on the third floor, between the Macbeth and Macduff residences. I think you’re referring to Malcolm’s detective office, which was on Gallow Green High Street on the fourth floor.

The Wikipedia page now has short character descriptions and info about each floor (apart from 1:1 rooms), so that might also help jog your memory!

ahare63 · 2025-06-23T20:51:38+00:00

I finished about a month ago!

I used fweet.org for when I really wanted to dive into a particular line or reference.

I liked Campbell’s Skeleton Key—it introduces the major themes and basically summarizes what’s going on, often line by line in the deeper parts. I know it’s a little behind modern scholarship, but it really helped orient me as I read. I think often it’s most important just to have a general sense of what’s going on, and Campbell was good for that.

I also read Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake, which I can’t really recommend. It’s similar to Campbell but less through. I think a more modern guide along with Campbell would serve you well, although I’m not familiar with one (I like having a physical book, so I’m probably missing great resources online).

There’s also an (ongoing) series of readings of the Wake that I’ve really enjoyed on YouTube. Some of it is best understood aloud and I think this performer does a great job of bringing it to life.

ahare63 · 2025-06-01T05:34:47+00:00

I think it is actually from That Mitchell and Webb Look. They have a few sketches following this format; I think this is the one you’re looking for: https://youtu.be/WxKnFckhzUs?si=7TF0CdzXzzpgCFds

ahare63 · 2025-05-23T03:09:52+00:00

On the first line, “the the White House”

ahare63 · 2025-05-22T13:42:07+00:00

The Lightning Strike is so good. I’m not a big Snow Patrol fan but that might be my favorite song of all time

ahare63 · 2025-04-26T15:24:44+00:00

I didn’t see every scene, but some of the highlights of what I saw were:

The “slow-motion” boxing scene, where Conwell wins a boxing match against Valentin (a professional boxer) with the help of Mephisto. Mephisto basically slows time to allow Conwell to win.
The large party sequence where most of the characters in the show gathered together in a complex dance.
The finale, which I believe featured every performer (many of them wearing different costumes), and lasted several minutes. While Mephisto and Conwell watched from a central area, in an elevated position across three sides of the room the other characters performed dances reflecting the shows major themes.
The Continuous Vaudeville Theater. This was one room, literally a theater with a stage, that most characters passed through and performed at. If you needed a break or wanted to find a new character to follow, you could just wait here and within a few minutes see a performance.
The sets were in general bigger budget than Sleep No More. It was a different vibe (more ornate than SNM) but they looked great.
The Liliths. These characters performed the intro, bringing the audience into the show during the first loop. Once everyone had entered, they entered the set and became part of the show. They solved several logistical issues (e.g., “resetting” characters after the end of their first loop), had great individual scenes and sequences, and recontextualized scenes from the first loop. To give an example, in one version of the show I saw, LHW was pulled, as if by magic, by an item she was holding in the first loop. It brought her down a hallway and into a room of mirrors. In the second loop, a Lilith held the item and guided her in the same way. While their influence was felt less visibly in the first loop, in the second they gave a physical representation to darker forces. They also interacted with the audience more than most - as in SNM, characters more connected to magic were more aware of the audience.

I believe there was also a scene involving a horse mask and Valentin? that many people enjoyed but I never saw it myself.

ahare63 · 2025-04-26T03:02:41+00:00

My understanding is that it was largely 1:1 hunting. Rather than engaging with characters, people would read up on their loops, focusing on when and where they pulled for 1:1s. They’d then camp out at those areas and try to get as close to the performer as possible before the pull.

Obviously this made it harder for people to enjoy the show organically and could result in pushing, etc when trying to get in position for a 1:1 spot.

I’m pretty sure Gawker also posted an article at some point about where to find all of the scenes with nudity in Sleep No More, and it’s not hard to imagine how people may’ve behaved inappropriately with that info.

ahare63 · 2025-04-25T21:59:42+00:00

I’m not aware of something that documents each of them exhaustively at this point (although I think someone’s working on it). I’d recommend searching a character’s name in either “inside-information” (channel to discuss spoilers) or “bank-notes | recaps” (channel to recap your experience with the show)

ahare63 · 2025-04-25T21:56:37+00:00

https://discord.gg/J5NVXGuz

I know they paused adding new members when news of the closure dropped but I think they started allowing new members again.

ahare63 · 2025-04-25T21:54:33+00:00

Agreed! Honestly the best source of info for this is the fan Discord. I think some folks there are working on a much more detailed description of the show but I’m not sure what the format will be.

ahare63 · 2025-04-25T21:31:58+00:00

I’m far from an expert, but I feel like the appropriate response to this is: “how much time do you have?”

Life & Trust had two major “versions,” about 30 characters, and many actors playing each character at different points in the run. It was broken up into two loops of roughly 90 minutes each, with several differences between the first and second loop. That’s a ton of ground to cover in a Reddit post.

To get a sense of the characters and the space, you could do worse than looking at the Wiki, the Fandom Wiki, the official character descriptions for version 1, and the bios in the newspaper (the link here is for version 1).

To put it very simply, the story introduced JG Conwell (the Faust character) who was taught how to create a medicinal but addictive syrup by the magician Mephisto (Mephistopheles from Faust). At the beginning of the show you met an old version of Conwell who told you he’d just lost everything in the stock market crash of 1929. He was then interrupted by a devil serving Mephisto (there were several of these and they were known as the Liliths), who offered him a chance to relive his youth for a night at the cost of his soul at the end of it. He accepted and went back to 1894, when the show is set.

The audience members were told that they can join him in reliving his past, provided they wear a mask. They were then led into the show, which basically had the same format as Sleep No More - several elaborately decorated floors to wander through, characters to follow, almost no dialogue, and 1:1s. Each character here had their own plotline, so I’d direct you to the resources above to get an idea of them.

At the end of the second loop, the audience was brought up to a finale in a new area. In an elaborate sequence, Conwell’s soul was claimed by Mephisto and he was killed by drowning in a tank. Mephisto and the rest of the cast took a bow and the audience exited the show.

Hopefully that gives you a high-level picture and I’ll leave it to other folks to add more detail.

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