Hag-Seed

that strange mixture of nostalgia for the past mixed with joy for the future

It does say in The Tempest, ‘Thought is free,’ but unfortunately that’s in a song sung by three idiots.”

It’s the words that should concern you, he thinks at them. That’s the real danger. Words don’t show up on scanners.

noble people don’t do things for the money, they simply have money, and that’s what allows them to be noble.

Everyone loved the fight scenes: that’s why Shakespeare put them in

Everyone loved the fight scenes: that’s why Shakespeare put them in.

The performances were a little

Bad behavior and even stupid behavior were punished and virtue was rewarded, more or less. With Shakespeare it was always more or less, as he took pains to point out.

the snoop gremlin, Google

The rest of his life. How long that time had once felt to him. How quickly it has sped by. How much of it has been wasted. How soon it will be over.

didn’t the best art have desperation at its core? Wasn’t it always a challenge to Death? A defiant middle finger on the edge of the abyss?