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  • Sorrows to the Stones

    Sorrows to the Stones

    I only recently got started with Titus Andronicus, and I am taking it very, very slowly so I don’t get lost like I did with Richard. I’m taking it page by page, but with more consistency.

    I also just finished watching the 1999 film with Anthony Hopkins. It’s a little absurd, but I liked it. Not easy to find – I had to buy a DVD from eBay.

    I wanted to point out this Borges’ short story that I heard about from a Very Bad Wizards episode. And incidentally, they just ran an episode on Macbeth – and now I’m thinking about jumping ahead (after Titus) because that might heighten the experience.

    I like pairing the reading with other media – movie, podcast – it seems to help.

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  • Shall I be plain?

    It took me way longer than it should have to finish Richard III. Maybe my mind was in other places while reading it. I don’t feel like this one captured me the way it should have. It’s probably worth coming back to at some point, because there were definitely parts that grabbed me.

    Next is Titus Andronicus, which I know nothing about.

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  • Five Hours

    Five Hours

    Richard III is a slog for me so far. Maybe I’ve just been preoccupied, but it has been hard to get into and I know it deserves a re-read.

    Every now and then, though, something grabs me and shakes me out of it. And that’s what I’ve enjoyed so far in this project. Just trudging along, barely paying attention, and then something hits me and I’m hooked. I have to go back and read it again.

    Bad is the world; and all will come to naught, When such ill dealing must be seen in thought.

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  • An Evil Diet Long

    I wasn’t able to continue reading through most of April, but have finally started King Richard III.

    Now is the winter of our discontent…

    There it is.

    I found the phrase “an evil diet long” intriguing. Many of us keep an evil diet long, and that definitely leads to problems.

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  • But Earth and Dust

    But Earth and Dust

    I finally finished King Henry VI Part 3. Life got busy and at times this one felt more of a slog. Lots of names and characters, hard to keep them all straight.

    It got exciting towards the end, and the sudden collapse of the House of Lancaster was dramatic.

    Warwick’s death caught my attention, and particularly this line:

    Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
    And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

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