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In these troubled times...
January 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM
In these troubled times...
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“Warum war alles so furchtbar und so schön.”
(Bachmann, “Ein Wildermuth”)
(Bachmann, “Ein Wildermuth”)
January 17, 2026 at 5:38 PM
“Warum war alles so furchtbar und so schön.”
(Bachmann, “Ein Wildermuth”)
(Bachmann, “Ein Wildermuth”)
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LUCIO
My lord, I know him: ‘tis a meddling friar.
I do not like the man. Had he been lay, my lord,
For certain words he spake against your Grace
In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act V s1 (127-130)
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
My lord, I know him: ‘tis a meddling friar.
I do not like the man. Had he been lay, my lord,
For certain words he spake against your Grace
In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act V s1 (127-130)
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
LUCIO
My lord, I know him: ‘tis a meddling friar.
I do not like the man. Had he been lay, my lord,
For certain words he spake against your Grace
In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act V s1 (127-130)
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
My lord, I know him: ‘tis a meddling friar.
I do not like the man. Had he been lay, my lord,
For certain words he spake against your Grace
In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act V s1 (127-130)
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
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ISABELLA.
And is this all?
Then, all you blessed ministers above,
Keep me in patience, and in ripened time
Unfold the evil which is here wrapped up
In countenance! Heaven shield your Grace from woe,
As I thus wronged hence unbelieved go!
Act V s1 Most of us are Isabella, alas. #2028Hope
And is this all?
Then, all you blessed ministers above,
Keep me in patience, and in ripened time
Unfold the evil which is here wrapped up
In countenance! Heaven shield your Grace from woe,
As I thus wronged hence unbelieved go!
Act V s1 Most of us are Isabella, alas. #2028Hope
January 17, 2026 at 2:54 PM
ISABELLA.
And is this all?
Then, all you blessed ministers above,
Keep me in patience, and in ripened time
Unfold the evil which is here wrapped up
In countenance! Heaven shield your Grace from woe,
As I thus wronged hence unbelieved go!
Act V s1 Most of us are Isabella, alas. #2028Hope
And is this all?
Then, all you blessed ministers above,
Keep me in patience, and in ripened time
Unfold the evil which is here wrapped up
In countenance! Heaven shield your Grace from woe,
As I thus wronged hence unbelieved go!
Act V s1 Most of us are Isabella, alas. #2028Hope
#TolstoyReadalong
„Tatsächlich pfiff die Lokomotive in der Ferne. Nach einigen Minuten erdröhnte der Bahnsteig. Keuchend und Dampf ausstossend, den der Frost nach unten presste, rollte die Lokomotive heran … Endlich kamen die Personenwagen, die noch einmal erzitterten, ehe sie stillstanden.“
„Tatsächlich pfiff die Lokomotive in der Ferne. Nach einigen Minuten erdröhnte der Bahnsteig. Keuchend und Dampf ausstossend, den der Frost nach unten presste, rollte die Lokomotive heran … Endlich kamen die Personenwagen, die noch einmal erzitterten, ehe sie stillstanden.“
January 17, 2026 at 3:29 PM
#TolstoyReadalong
„Tatsächlich pfiff die Lokomotive in der Ferne. Nach einigen Minuten erdröhnte der Bahnsteig. Keuchend und Dampf ausstossend, den der Frost nach unten presste, rollte die Lokomotive heran … Endlich kamen die Personenwagen, die noch einmal erzitterten, ehe sie stillstanden.“
„Tatsächlich pfiff die Lokomotive in der Ferne. Nach einigen Minuten erdröhnte der Bahnsteig. Keuchend und Dampf ausstossend, den der Frost nach unten presste, rollte die Lokomotive heran … Endlich kamen die Personenwagen, die noch einmal erzitterten, ehe sie stillstanden.“
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January 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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“…that the new place is located at the point of dispersion. I anchor these images in oblivion…”
— from M. G. Llansol’s diaries
(trans. Audrey Young)
— from M. G. Llansol’s diaries
(trans. Audrey Young)
January 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM
“…that the new place is located at the point of dispersion. I anchor these images in oblivion…”
— from M. G. Llansol’s diaries
(trans. Audrey Young)
— from M. G. Llansol’s diaries
(trans. Audrey Young)
#MeasureForMeasure_2026
DUKE
Come, cousin Angelo,
In this I'‘ll be impartial: be you judge
Of your own cause.
V,1,167-169
William Shakespeare
Arden London 1965
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
DUKE
Come, cousin Angelo,
In this I'‘ll be impartial: be you judge
Of your own cause.
V,1,167-169
William Shakespeare
Arden London 1965
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 17, 2026 at 1:42 PM
#MeasureForMeasure_2026
DUKE
Come, cousin Angelo,
In this I'‘ll be impartial: be you judge
Of your own cause.
V,1,167-169
William Shakespeare
Arden London 1965
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
DUKE
Come, cousin Angelo,
In this I'‘ll be impartial: be you judge
Of your own cause.
V,1,167-169
William Shakespeare
Arden London 1965
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
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Isabella: …”Well, believe this:
No ceremony that to great ones ‘longs,
Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.”
Measure for Measure
#ShakespeareSunday
No ceremony that to great ones ‘longs,
Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.”
Measure for Measure
#ShakespeareSunday
January 4, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Isabella: …”Well, believe this:
No ceremony that to great ones ‘longs,
Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.”
Measure for Measure
#ShakespeareSunday
No ceremony that to great ones ‘longs,
Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.”
Measure for Measure
#ShakespeareSunday
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Juliet:
“Must die tomorrow? oh injurious Love
That respited me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horror.”
MeasureforMeasure_2025
Not sure why the Friar/Duke thinks Juliet is guiltier than Claudio…
“Must die tomorrow? oh injurious Love
That respited me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horror.”
MeasureforMeasure_2025
Not sure why the Friar/Duke thinks Juliet is guiltier than Claudio…
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Juliet:
“Must die tomorrow? oh injurious Love
That respited me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horror.”
MeasureforMeasure_2025
Not sure why the Friar/Duke thinks Juliet is guiltier than Claudio…
“Must die tomorrow? oh injurious Love
That respited me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horror.”
MeasureforMeasure_2025
Not sure why the Friar/Duke thinks Juliet is guiltier than Claudio…
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Isabella:
“To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
Who would believe me?”
Measure for Measure
#ShakespeareSunday
“To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
Who would believe me?”
Measure for Measure
#ShakespeareSunday
January 11, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Isabella:
“To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
Who would believe me?”
Measure for Measure
#ShakespeareSunday
“To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
Who would believe me?”
Measure for Measure
#ShakespeareSunday
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“Each book was ‘a door to a whole kingdom.’ In later life, when she had acquired 25,000 of them…”
The Art of the Obituary (6): Susan Sontag
Annie Leibovitz, Susan at the House on Hedges Lane (1988), Brooklyn Museum Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) She was bookish almost from birth. At three, she was reading; at nine,…
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January 16, 2026 at 5:18 PM
“Each book was ‘a door to a whole kingdom.’ In later life, when she had acquired 25,000 of them…”
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My ma used to tell me stories about my da. The first one I remember, he was an Egyptian prince who wanted to marry her and stay in Ireland forever, only his family made him go home to marry an Arabian princess. She told a good story, my ma.
Tana French / The Trespasser
Tana French / The Trespasser
January 15, 2026 at 10:15 PM
My ma used to tell me stories about my da. The first one I remember, he was an Egyptian prince who wanted to marry her and stay in Ireland forever, only his family made him go home to marry an Arabian princess. She told a good story, my ma.
Tana French / The Trespasser
Tana French / The Trespasser
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Along the way
in the neighborhood
in the neighborhood
January 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Along the way
in the neighborhood
in the neighborhood
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#TheBard_ProblemPlays #Troilus_2026 to begin on Jan. 26, 2026!
Shakespeare does the Trojan War, his way, with lovers from rival nations, about 5 years after Romeo & Juliet.
I'll read the Bantam, edited by Bevington.
Hope to read together, #MeasureforMeasure_2025 !
#Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida
Shakespeare does the Trojan War, his way, with lovers from rival nations, about 5 years after Romeo & Juliet.
I'll read the Bantam, edited by Bevington.
Hope to read together, #MeasureforMeasure_2025 !
#Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida
January 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
#TheBard_ProblemPlays #Troilus_2026 to begin on Jan. 26, 2026!
Shakespeare does the Trojan War, his way, with lovers from rival nations, about 5 years after Romeo & Juliet.
I'll read the Bantam, edited by Bevington.
Hope to read together, #MeasureforMeasure_2025 !
#Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida
Shakespeare does the Trojan War, his way, with lovers from rival nations, about 5 years after Romeo & Juliet.
I'll read the Bantam, edited by Bevington.
Hope to read together, #MeasureforMeasure_2025 !
#Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida
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DUKE
If she be mad,—as I believe no other,—
Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
Such a dependency of thing on thing,
As e’er I heard in madness.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act I s 1 (60-63)
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
If she be mad,—as I believe no other,—
Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
Such a dependency of thing on thing,
As e’er I heard in madness.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act I s 1 (60-63)
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
DUKE
If she be mad,—as I believe no other,—
Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
Such a dependency of thing on thing,
As e’er I heard in madness.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act I s 1 (60-63)
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
If she be mad,—as I believe no other,—
Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
Such a dependency of thing on thing,
As e’er I heard in madness.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act I s 1 (60-63)
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
#MeasureForMeasure_2026
DUKE
When it deserves with characters of brass
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
V,1,12-14
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Basic concept of Elizabethan thinking: eternal glory, recorded in bronze letters; goes back to Horace (Odes III,30).
DUKE
When it deserves with characters of brass
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
V,1,12-14
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Basic concept of Elizabethan thinking: eternal glory, recorded in bronze letters; goes back to Horace (Odes III,30).
January 16, 2026 at 8:47 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2026
DUKE
When it deserves with characters of brass
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
V,1,12-14
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Basic concept of Elizabethan thinking: eternal glory, recorded in bronze letters; goes back to Horace (Odes III,30).
DUKE
When it deserves with characters of brass
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
V,1,12-14
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Basic concept of Elizabethan thinking: eternal glory, recorded in bronze letters; goes back to Horace (Odes III,30).
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“Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded:
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded:
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 15, 2026 at 10:57 PM
“Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded:
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded:
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
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"He should have lived
Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,
By so receiving a dishonored life
With such ransom of shame. Would yet he had lived!"
Angelo feels the blood on his hands. Measure for Measure
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,
By so receiving a dishonored life
With such ransom of shame. Would yet he had lived!"
Angelo feels the blood on his hands. Measure for Measure
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 16, 2026 at 2:51 AM
"He should have lived
Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,
By so receiving a dishonored life
With such ransom of shame. Would yet he had lived!"
Angelo feels the blood on his hands. Measure for Measure
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,
By so receiving a dishonored life
With such ransom of shame. Would yet he had lived!"
Angelo feels the blood on his hands. Measure for Measure
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Week 4 begins 1/16-
#MeasureforMeasure_2025
Measure for Measure surprised me; I really didn't understand the play until I directed it, which just goes to show that Shakespeare can always teach us something new.
-Joseph Papp, The Public Theater 1988
(1/2)
#MeasureforMeasure_2025
Measure for Measure surprised me; I really didn't understand the play until I directed it, which just goes to show that Shakespeare can always teach us something new.
-Joseph Papp, The Public Theater 1988
(1/2)
January 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
#TheBard_ProblemPlays Week 4 begins 1/16-
#MeasureforMeasure_2025
Measure for Measure surprised me; I really didn't understand the play until I directed it, which just goes to show that Shakespeare can always teach us something new.
-Joseph Papp, The Public Theater 1988
(1/2)
#MeasureforMeasure_2025
Measure for Measure surprised me; I really didn't understand the play until I directed it, which just goes to show that Shakespeare can always teach us something new.
-Joseph Papp, The Public Theater 1988
(1/2)
Wronskij fühlte, dass „jenes geheimnisvolle seelische Band zwischen ihm und Kitty so stark gefestigt, dass es unumgänglich schien, irgend etwas zu unternehmen. Was aber geschehen sollte, darüber konnte er keine Klarheit gewinnen.“
#TolstoyReadalong
Anna Karenina
I,16
#TolstoyReadalong
Anna Karenina
I,16
January 16, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Wronskij fühlte, dass „jenes geheimnisvolle seelische Band zwischen ihm und Kitty so stark gefestigt, dass es unumgänglich schien, irgend etwas zu unternehmen. Was aber geschehen sollte, darüber konnte er keine Klarheit gewinnen.“
#TolstoyReadalong
Anna Karenina
I,16
#TolstoyReadalong
Anna Karenina
I,16
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Mark Rothko | Self-Portrait, 1936
Collection of Christopher Rothko
Collection of Christopher Rothko
January 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Mark Rothko | Self-Portrait, 1936
Collection of Christopher Rothko
Collection of Christopher Rothko
ANGELO
This deed unshapes me quite; makes me unpregnant
And dull to all proceedings.
(…)
Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not.
#MeasureForMeasure_2026
IV,4,18-32
William Shakespeare
Arden London 1965
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
This deed unshapes me quite; makes me unpregnant
And dull to all proceedings.
(…)
Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not.
#MeasureForMeasure_2026
IV,4,18-32
William Shakespeare
Arden London 1965
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
ANGELO
This deed unshapes me quite; makes me unpregnant
And dull to all proceedings.
(…)
Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not.
#MeasureForMeasure_2026
IV,4,18-32
William Shakespeare
Arden London 1965
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
This deed unshapes me quite; makes me unpregnant
And dull to all proceedings.
(…)
Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not.
#MeasureForMeasure_2026
IV,4,18-32
William Shakespeare
Arden London 1965
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
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ANGELO
His actions show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act IV s 4 (2-3)
His actions show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act IV s 4 (2-3)
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
ANGELO
His actions show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act IV s 4 (2-3)
His actions show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted.
#MeasureforMeasure_2026
Act IV s 4 (2-3)