Alison
@alisonjaye.bsky.social
“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!”
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Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so
That heaven’s vault should crack.—She’s gone for ever!”
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November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“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
Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so
That heaven’s vault should crack.—She’s gone for ever!”
#kinglear_2025
“Yet Edmund was belov’d:
The one the other poison’d for my sake,
And after slew herself.”
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The one the other poison’d for my sake,
And after slew herself.”
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November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“Yet Edmund was belov’d:
The one the other poison’d for my sake,
And after slew herself.”
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The one the other poison’d for my sake,
And after slew herself.”
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“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.”
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We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage
When thou ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness.”
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November 16, 2025 at 4:47 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.”
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We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage
When thou ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness.”
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“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”
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For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:
If ever I return to you again,
I’ll bring you comfort”
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November 15, 2025 at 8:01 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”
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For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:
If ever I return to you again,
I’ll bring you comfort”
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“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?”
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You know the goodness I intend upon you:
Tell me,—but truly,—but then speak the truth,
Do you not love my sister?”
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November 15, 2025 at 7:59 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?”
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You know the goodness I intend upon you:
Tell me,—but truly,—but then speak the truth,
Do you not love my sister?”
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“My point and period will be thoroughly wrought,
Or well or ill, as this day’s battle fought.”
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Or well or ill, as this day’s battle fought.”
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November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“My point and period will be thoroughly wrought,
Or well or ill, as this day’s battle fought.”
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Or well or ill, as this day’s battle fought.”
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“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!”
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Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss
Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
Have in thy reverence made!”
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November 14, 2025 at 3:50 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
Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss
Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
Have in thy reverence made!”
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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.”
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In the restoring his bereaved sense?
He that helps him take all my outward worth.”
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November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“What can man’s wisdom
In the restoring his bereaved sense?
He that helps him take all my outward worth.”
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In the restoring his bereaved sense?
He that helps him take all my outward worth.”
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$.045? I thought my $2.25 was a bargain! 😀
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
$.045? I thought my $2.25 was a bargain! 😀
“World, world, O world!
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.”
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But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.”
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November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“World, world, O world!
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.”
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But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.”
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“Go thou: I’ll fetch some flax, and whites of eggs
To apply to’s bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!”
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To apply to’s bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!”
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November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“Go thou: I’ll fetch some flax, and whites of eggs
To apply to’s bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!”
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To apply to’s bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!”
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“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.”
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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.”
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November 6, 2025 at 3:15 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
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
“Arraign her first; ‘tis Goneril.— I here take my oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the poor king her father.”
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November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“Arraign her first; ‘tis Goneril.— I here take my oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the poor king her father.”
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“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?”
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November 5, 2025 at 8:37 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?”
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“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.”
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Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters’ blessing; here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools.”
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November 4, 2025 at 6:35 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
Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters’ blessing; here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools.”
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“Who’s there, besides foul weather?”
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November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Who’s there, besides foul weather?”
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“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.”
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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.”
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November 3, 2025 at 5:09 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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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October 31, 2025 at 7:52 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
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
“Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
This shameful lodging.
Fortune, good night; smile once more; turn thy wheel!”
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This shameful lodging.
Fortune, good night; smile once more; turn thy wheel!”
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October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
This shameful lodging.
Fortune, good night; smile once more; turn thy wheel!”
#kinglear_2025
This shameful lodging.
Fortune, good night; smile once more; turn thy wheel!”
#kinglear_2025
“You have heard of the news abroad,— I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?”
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October 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“You have heard of the news abroad,— I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?”
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Oswald. “I’ll not be strucken, my lord.”
Kent. “Nor tripped neither, you base football player.”
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Kent. “Nor tripped neither, you base football player.”
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October 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Oswald. “I’ll not be strucken, my lord.”
Kent. “Nor tripped neither, you base football player.”
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Kent. “Nor tripped neither, you base football player.”
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“Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top th’legitimate. I grow, I prosper.
Now, gods, stand up for bastards.”
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And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top th’legitimate. I grow, I prosper.
Now, gods, stand up for bastards.”
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October 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top th’legitimate. I grow, I prosper.
Now, gods, stand up for bastards.”
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And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top th’legitimate. I grow, I prosper.
Now, gods, stand up for bastards.”
#kinglear_2025
“Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
According to my bond; nor more nor less.”
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My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
According to my bond; nor more nor less.”
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October 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
According to my bond; nor more nor less.”
#kinglear_2025
My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
According to my bond; nor more nor less.”
#kinglear_2025
“but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either’s moiety.”
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October 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either’s moiety.”
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