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“Howl, howl, howl, howl!—O, you are men of stones;
Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so
That heaven’s vault should crack.—She’s gone for ever!”
#kinglear_2025
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Yet Edmund was belov’d:
The one the other poison’d for my sake,
And after slew herself.”
#kinglear_2025
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“Come, let’s away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage
When thou ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness.”
#kinglear_2025
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Here, father, take the shadow of this tree
For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:
If ever I return to you again,
I’ll bring you comfort”
#kinglear_2025
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Now, sweet lord,
You know the goodness I intend upon you:
Tell me,—but truly,—but then speak the truth,
Do you not love my sister?”
#kinglear_2025
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“My point and period will be thoroughly wrought,
Or well or ill, as this day’s battle fought.”
#kinglear_2025
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“O my dear father! Restoration hang
Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss
Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
Have in thy reverence made!”
#kinglear_2025
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
“O ruined peace of nature! This great world
Shall so wear out to nought.”
#kinglear_2025
Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Ay, every inch a king!
When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.”
#kinglear_2025
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“What can man’s wisdom
In the restoring his bereaved sense?
He that helps him take all my outward worth.”
#kinglear_2025
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Will listen to this when we’re done
#rachelcusktogether
Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
Podcast Episode · Backlisted · 11/11/2025 · 1h 19m
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November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“World, world, O world!
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.”
#kinglear_2025
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Go thou: I’ll fetch some flax, and whites of eggs
To apply to’s bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!”
#kinglear_2025
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“Oppressed nature sleeps:—
This rest night yet have balm’d thy broken senses,
Which, if convenience will not allow,
Stand in hard cure.—Come, help to bear thy master;
Thou must not stay behind.”
#kinglear_2025
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“Arraign her first; ‘tis Goneril.— I here take my oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the poor king her father.”
#kinglear_2025
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“Why, thou were better in thy grave, than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. — Is man no more than this?”
#kinglear_2025
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is better than this, rain-water out o’door.
Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters’ blessing; here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools.”
#kinglear_2025
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Who’s there, besides foul weather?”
#kinglear_2025
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Shut up your doors:
He is attended with a desperate train;
And what they may incense him to, being apt
To have his ear abus’d, wisdom bids fear.”
#kinglear_2025
November 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“O, sir, you are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine: you should be rul’d, and led
By some discretion that discerns your state
Better than yourself.”
#kinglear_2025
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
This shameful lodging.
Fortune, good night; smile once more; turn thy wheel!”
#kinglear_2025
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“You have heard of the news abroad,— I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?”
#kinglear_2025
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“That’s a shealed peascod.”
Lear, an empty peapod.
#kinglear_2025
October 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Great story about how he was asked to recite the last lines of King Lear at Olivier’s funeral.
#kinglear_2025
Anthony Hopkins on Quitting Drinking and Finding God
Podcast Episode · The Interview · 10/25/2025 · 41m
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October 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Oswald. “I’ll not be strucken, my lord.”
Kent. “Nor tripped neither, you base football player.”
#kinglear_2025
October 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM