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Stave off mind-hunger with books, movies and food; heliotrope into museums & mountains. Who dat!
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#TwoGents_2025 Week 2 begins 12/1-
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
#TwoGents_2025 Day 8, 12/1- Act II s5 and s6
Location. Padua (or did Shakespeare mean Milan?)
SPEED.
Lance, by mine honesty, welcome to Padua.
to end of s6,
PROTEUS.
Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift.
Location. Padua (or did Shakespeare mean Milan?)
SPEED.
Lance, by mine honesty, welcome to Padua.
to end of s6,
PROTEUS.
Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift.
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Day 8, 12/1- Act II s5 and s6
Location. Padua (or did Shakespeare mean Milan?)
SPEED.
Lance, by mine honesty, welcome to Padua.
to end of s6,
PROTEUS.
Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift.
Location. Padua (or did Shakespeare mean Milan?)
SPEED.
Lance, by mine honesty, welcome to Padua.
to end of s6,
PROTEUS.
Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift.
#TwoGents_2025 Week 2 begins 12/1-
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Week 2 begins 12/1-
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
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#TwoGents_2025
Proteus:
Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,
Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
(II.4.204-206)
Uh-oh! Troubles brewing.
I'm enjoying this much more than I anticipated.
Proteus:
Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,
Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
(II.4.204-206)
Uh-oh! Troubles brewing.
I'm enjoying this much more than I anticipated.
November 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
#TwoGents_2025
Proteus:
Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,
Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
(II.4.204-206)
Uh-oh! Troubles brewing.
I'm enjoying this much more than I anticipated.
Proteus:
Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,
Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
(II.4.204-206)
Uh-oh! Troubles brewing.
I'm enjoying this much more than I anticipated.
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'time could seem to have altered everything, without changing the thing that needed to change'
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
'time could seem to have altered everything, without changing the thing that needed to change'
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Yes! And endeared Xi Xi to me as we both admired the novel.
November 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Yes! And endeared Xi Xi to me as we both admired the novel.
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VALENTINE
Then speak the truth by her: if not divine,
Yet let her be a principality,
Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
#TwoGents_2025
II,4,149-151
Then speak the truth by her: if not divine,
Yet let her be a principality,
Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
#TwoGents_2025
II,4,149-151
November 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
VALENTINE
Then speak the truth by her: if not divine,
Yet let her be a principality,
Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
#TwoGents_2025
II,4,149-151
Then speak the truth by her: if not divine,
Yet let her be a principality,
Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
#TwoGents_2025
II,4,149-151
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Maybe best obit I’ve ever read. @nytimes Mr Weber steps up to the cricket bat and goes 200 yds. #twogents_2025 #tomstoppard www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Maybe best obit I’ve ever read. @nytimes Mr Weber steps up to the cricket bat and goes 200 yds. #twogents_2025 #tomstoppard www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
#TwoGents_2025 Day 7, 11/30- Act II s4 from line 114 "VALENTINE. Now, tell me: how do all from whence you came?" to end of scene,
to
PROTEUS.
If I can check my erring love, I will:
If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.
to
PROTEUS.
If I can check my erring love, I will:
If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Day 7, 11/30- Act II s4 from line 114 "VALENTINE. Now, tell me: how do all from whence you came?" to end of scene,
to
PROTEUS.
If I can check my erring love, I will:
If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.
to
PROTEUS.
If I can check my erring love, I will:
If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.
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#TwoGents_2025
Valentine:
Sir Turio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks,
and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.
Turio:
Sir, if you spend word-for-word with me, I shall
make your wit bankrupt.
(II.4.35-39)
Valentine:
Sir Turio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks,
and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.
Turio:
Sir, if you spend word-for-word with me, I shall
make your wit bankrupt.
(II.4.35-39)
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
#TwoGents_2025
Valentine:
Sir Turio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks,
and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.
Turio:
Sir, if you spend word-for-word with me, I shall
make your wit bankrupt.
(II.4.35-39)
Valentine:
Sir Turio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks,
and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.
Turio:
Sir, if you spend word-for-word with me, I shall
make your wit bankrupt.
(II.4.35-39)
"A book such as Julian's was far more palatable" 106
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit Hits the nail on the head- subsisting on proceeds from literary writing (or any creative enterprise) is like winning the lottery. On the flipside, commercial success is double-edged (writer character on #Plur1bus ).
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit Hits the nail on the head- subsisting on proceeds from literary writing (or any creative enterprise) is like winning the lottery. On the flipside, commercial success is double-edged (writer character on #Plur1bus ).
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"A book such as Julian's was far more palatable" 106
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit Hits the nail on the head- subsisting on proceeds from literary writing (or any creative enterprise) is like winning the lottery. On the flipside, commercial success is double-edged (writer character on #Plur1bus ).
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit Hits the nail on the head- subsisting on proceeds from literary writing (or any creative enterprise) is like winning the lottery. On the flipside, commercial success is double-edged (writer character on #Plur1bus ).
"...those associations were being created right now, while he sat there: he was actively & by small degrees becoming distanced from the person he had been, while becoming by the same small degrees someone new." 104
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit Connection- this sentence makes me LOVE this novel.
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit Connection- this sentence makes me LOVE this novel.
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"...those associations were being created right now, while he sat there: he was actively & by small degrees becoming distanced from the person he had been, while becoming by the same small degrees someone new." 104
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit Connection- this sentence makes me LOVE this novel.
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit Connection- this sentence makes me LOVE this novel.
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Correct!
Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively written as Launcelot... is a popular character in the Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition. Typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion & one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. wikipedia.
Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively written as Launcelot... is a popular character in the Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition. Typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion & one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. wikipedia.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Correct!
Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively written as Launcelot... is a popular character in the Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition. Typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion & one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. wikipedia.
Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively written as Launcelot... is a popular character in the Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition. Typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion & one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. wikipedia.
Today we meet Silvia, daugh. of the Duke of Milan. Her wit & elegance suggest a slightly older sophisticate; contrast w. Julia.
V. ...his mistress
Did hold his eyes locked in her crystal looks.
S. Belike that now she hath enfranchised them
upon some other pawn for fealty
Act II s4 #TwoGents_2025
V. ...his mistress
Did hold his eyes locked in her crystal looks.
S. Belike that now she hath enfranchised them
upon some other pawn for fealty
Act II s4 #TwoGents_2025
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Today we meet Silvia, daugh. of the Duke of Milan. Her wit & elegance suggest a slightly older sophisticate; contrast w. Julia.
V. ...his mistress
Did hold his eyes locked in her crystal looks.
S. Belike that now she hath enfranchised them
upon some other pawn for fealty
Act II s4 #TwoGents_2025
V. ...his mistress
Did hold his eyes locked in her crystal looks.
S. Belike that now she hath enfranchised them
upon some other pawn for fealty
Act II s4 #TwoGents_2025
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November 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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VALENTINE
. . . sir: you have an exchequer of words, and I think, no other treasure to give your followers, for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.
#TwoGents_2025
Act II s4 (39-41)
(speaking to Thurio)
. . . sir: you have an exchequer of words, and I think, no other treasure to give your followers, for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.
#TwoGents_2025
Act II s4 (39-41)
(speaking to Thurio)
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
VALENTINE
. . . sir: you have an exchequer of words, and I think, no other treasure to give your followers, for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.
#TwoGents_2025
Act II s4 (39-41)
(speaking to Thurio)
. . . sir: you have an exchequer of words, and I think, no other treasure to give your followers, for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.
#TwoGents_2025
Act II s4 (39-41)
(speaking to Thurio)
#TwoGents_2025 Day 6, 11/29- Act II s4 to line 113 "PROTEUS. We'll both attend upon your ladyship. [Exeunt Silvia & Turio.]"
Location. Milan.
SILVIA. Servant!
VALENTINE. Mistress?
Location. Milan.
SILVIA. Servant!
VALENTINE. Mistress?
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Day 6, 11/29- Act II s4 to line 113 "PROTEUS. We'll both attend upon your ladyship. [Exeunt Silvia & Turio.]"
Location. Milan.
SILVIA. Servant!
VALENTINE. Mistress?
Location. Milan.
SILVIA. Servant!
VALENTINE. Mistress?
I'd brought four copies of Flaubert's novel to the hospital: the French original, the English translation, and two Chinese translations.
Translation is an extremely challenging task, and a good translation is even more challenging.
#XiXi #NYRBwomen25 #FlaubertTogether Madame Bovary
Translation is an extremely challenging task, and a good translation is even more challenging.
#XiXi #NYRBwomen25 #FlaubertTogether Madame Bovary
I just learned of the death of Efraín Kristal, whose UCLA courses on Renaissance writing and, especially, on Borges showed me that serious scholarship need not deaden, but can in fact fortify one’s pure-hearted love of literature. As a translator, I found a credo in his work:
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'd brought four copies of Flaubert's novel to the hospital: the French original, the English translation, and two Chinese translations.
Translation is an extremely challenging task, and a good translation is even more challenging.
#XiXi #NYRBwomen25 #FlaubertTogether Madame Bovary
Translation is an extremely challenging task, and a good translation is even more challenging.
#XiXi #NYRBwomen25 #FlaubertTogether Madame Bovary
"He was like a cupboard rammed full with junk: when he opened the door everything fell out; it took time to reorganize himself." 100
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"He was like a cupboard rammed full with junk: when he opened the door everything fell out; it took time to reorganize himself." 100
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit
#RachelCuskTogether #Transit
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"Some of these roots had penetrated to the surface: their blind, snake-like forms, thicker than a human arm, lay impacted in the stone." Trees are dramatic in this volume. (Also "penetrated to the surface" is an interesting, paradoxical phrase.) #rachelcusktogether
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"Some of these roots had penetrated to the surface: their blind, snake-like forms, thicker than a human arm, lay impacted in the stone." Trees are dramatic in this volume. (Also "penetrated to the surface" is an interesting, paradoxical phrase.) #rachelcusktogether
LANCE. I am the dog. No, the dog is
himself, and I am the dog. O, the dog is me, and I
am myself. Ay, so, so.
Act II s3 #TwoGents_2025 #Beckett #ShoesAsParents
himself, and I am the dog. O, the dog is me, and I
am myself. Ay, so, so.
Act II s3 #TwoGents_2025 #Beckett #ShoesAsParents
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
LANCE. I am the dog. No, the dog is
himself, and I am the dog. O, the dog is me, and I
am myself. Ay, so, so.
Act II s3 #TwoGents_2025 #Beckett #ShoesAsParents
himself, and I am the dog. O, the dog is me, and I
am myself. Ay, so, so.
Act II s3 #TwoGents_2025 #Beckett #ShoesAsParents
#TwoGents_2025 Day 5, 11/28- Act II s2 and s3
s2
PROTEUS. Have patience, gentle Julia.
to end of s3
LANCE. Well, I will go.
s2
PROTEUS. Have patience, gentle Julia.
to end of s3
LANCE. Well, I will go.
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Day 5, 11/28- Act II s2 and s3
s2
PROTEUS. Have patience, gentle Julia.
to end of s3
LANCE. Well, I will go.
s2
PROTEUS. Have patience, gentle Julia.
to end of s3
LANCE. Well, I will go.
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Here's a beautiful Thanksgiving Day poem by the great Sharon Olds to help you forget that turkey in Mar-a-Lago.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here's a beautiful Thanksgiving Day poem by the great Sharon Olds to help you forget that turkey in Mar-a-Lago.