Tag: Shakespeare
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The Plunge
15 November 2024 The leaves are down here in Madbury NH and we’ve had our first November night of temperatures consistently in the 20’s; though my snowplow guy Dave staked the driveway weeks ago, this is the first morning it seemed plausible I’d awaken to snow. We’re on the threshold—in so many ways. Last Monday…
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Hinge Moment
31 May 2024 In his essay collection Languages of Truth, Salman Rushdie proposed that there are “hinge moments” in history when “everything is in flux . . . [and] the future is up for grabs.” Rushdie wrote: “When one lives at a hinge moment in history, as we do, as Shakespeare did when he wrote…
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“Slanders of the Age” and the Write-In Campaign, 1.27.24
This past week I’ve been consumed by two endeavors, volunteering in the Write-in Biden (WIB) campaign and reviewing my KDP editor’s notes on the Henry V chapter of my forthcoming book, Will to Live: Learning from Shakespeare How to Be—and NOT to Be. Doing both in such proximity reminds me of the curious elision of…
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October Miscellany: The Helpers
23 October 2023 As my birth month draws to a close, I can report I’ve enjoyed weeks crowded with happy personal incident. And so, Dear Readers, as I suggested last post, it’s the helpers I catalog here, turning away quite deliberately from the horrors of the 24-hour news cycle. Here they are, in chronological order:…
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Sweet are the uses of adversity
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. (AYLI, 2.1.12-17) This Good Friday seems a good day to address a dear friend’s question about the meaning of daffodils–and also to shape the wherefore of this new blog. Anthropologist Leslie…
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