All Lit, All the Time
I started reading King Lear, and honestly I don't think I'll finish it. I don't know, maybe it's that half the characters have similar names and titles, maybe that Cordelia's total inability to play the yes-man game just doesn't impress me, maybe I'm equally unimpressed with Lear's big hissyfit--and was that a hint of a hidden agenda to keep Cordelia unmarried to serve him in old age? I kind of liked Kent though.
I ended up in King Lear after I stumbled onto the Dark Tower's literary ancestor in a volume of Browning poetry and followed it back to Lear, which pointed back to a lost folk song. I have decided to believe that, through mystical means, the lost folk song IS the Browning poem, which was known to Shakespeare, forgotten, and written by Browning, only to be returned to a prior era so that it could inspire Shakespeare, and be forgotten, and the line from Shakespeare could inspire Browning, and on and on in a big, somehow un-paradoxical, loop.
There's a story in there somewhere. Remind me to dig it out later.
The cover art for ketsugami's first novel came in, it's smashin' gorgeous. This book will make your shelf look prettier. Change of plans, Django, you now have to sign my copy on the inside. :)
And, so that this entry isn't entirely literature-related, a quote from scionofgrace:
So last week, Thom drew a little cartoon Yoda in a cafe hat and apron and wrote, "French fries we serve not. Coffee house we are. Brew or brew not, there is no fry."
I ended up in King Lear after I stumbled onto the Dark Tower's literary ancestor in a volume of Browning poetry and followed it back to Lear, which pointed back to a lost folk song. I have decided to believe that, through mystical means, the lost folk song IS the Browning poem, which was known to Shakespeare, forgotten, and written by Browning, only to be returned to a prior era so that it could inspire Shakespeare, and be forgotten, and the line from Shakespeare could inspire Browning, and on and on in a big, somehow un-paradoxical, loop.
There's a story in there somewhere. Remind me to dig it out later.
The cover art for ketsugami's first novel came in, it's smashin' gorgeous. This book will make your shelf look prettier. Change of plans, Django, you now have to sign my copy on the inside. :)
And, so that this entry isn't entirely literature-related, a quote from scionofgrace:
So last week, Thom drew a little cartoon Yoda in a cafe hat and apron and wrote, "French fries we serve not. Coffee house we are. Brew or brew not, there is no fry."