Thank you. That's an interesting point you raise, and I will have to ponder it more. I guess we're all just following the story about the balloon as the world burns.
I enjoyed the Coens' version to a point -- the actor who played the witches was AMAZING -- and you're right. He just gets lost in the flow of events, and has to see it through to the end even as his wife loses her nerve.
Because it was Stephanie, I broke down and joined Spotify to hear her latest. Glad to have done it. She is very talented! Proud to say I figured out "ICHBOK" all by myself!
Othello: I read it years and years and years ago. Suffice it to say was relieved that you provided "Cliff Notes" for us to refresh our collective memories.
The Five/8. Good show, once again. I always watch after-the-fact. I don't get an option to "Like" so don't know if that matters for your purposes? Hope LB is okay and will be all better next week.
Thanks, Lynell! I'm glad you liked the song. Thanks for listening. Spotify is actually very good for artists like her.
I had to brush up on my Shakespeare myself. For me, that's the best part of these Sunday pieces. I have to re-visit stuff I read ages ago, or do a deeper dive.
Every time I read your Sunday pages, it occurs to me that you squeezed out every cent's worth of value from your education at Georgetown. You are a consummate lit crit grad.
Verdi's Otello (Othello) is my favorite opera/Shakespeare tragedy, and I must have grown up surrounded by very different people than you did because this opera/play has always made perfect sense to me ever since I first read it in college and then subsequently became an operaphile. There was no doubt in my mind that shitty humans like Iago slink the earth.
Especially since WWII when the Nazis let loose on the land the political movement borne of jealousy of what others have, but that you want and yet are too stupid, feckless, and lazy to do for yourself, can and should be yours by way of killing, stealing, and "othering" those who have what you want.
This play is and always will speak to lethal entitlement.
And yes, it's too long. All operas from the 19th Century are too long, too, even if I don't play Wordle.
Thanks Whitney. Yeah, I was a pretty naive kid, I guess. But evil is, and always has been, all around.
My Shakespeare professor in college was awful. He was a failed actor who loved to listen to himself perform the monologues. He used to take off his glasses and put the side piece in his mouth -- that level of affectation. He wanted to convince us that the comedies were better literature than the tragedies. They aren't. He was very popular, everyone else loved him, I got a C+.
LOL. I had a professor like that for the Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville class in my American Studies program. The guy told us that just because he loved Poe didn't mean he found Poe's work psychologically reflective of his views and life experience. Okay. Then I found out he loved bats and spent summers living in caves. Too bad Stoker wasn't American.
I really like how your interviews and the current events, big and small, influence your writing. Iago is another “cuck” whose only redeeming feature is his ability to shut up in the end, unlike a Chucklecuck we know.
Thanks, Marie. Sundays are a clearinghouse for my brain, I suppose. Chuckles is Iago, isn't he? Passed over by the Ivy League, on a mission to lay waste to the world ever since.
Thank you. That's an interesting point you raise, and I will have to ponder it more. I guess we're all just following the story about the balloon as the world burns.
I enjoyed the Coens' version to a point -- the actor who played the witches was AMAZING -- and you're right. He just gets lost in the flow of events, and has to see it through to the end even as his wife loses her nerve.
Good morning
O who ?
O-lee-ar.
Because it was Stephanie, I broke down and joined Spotify to hear her latest. Glad to have done it. She is very talented! Proud to say I figured out "ICHBOK" all by myself!
Othello: I read it years and years and years ago. Suffice it to say was relieved that you provided "Cliff Notes" for us to refresh our collective memories.
The Five/8. Good show, once again. I always watch after-the-fact. I don't get an option to "Like" so don't know if that matters for your purposes? Hope LB is okay and will be all better next week.
Many thanks, Greg!
Thanks, Lynell! I'm glad you liked the song. Thanks for listening. Spotify is actually very good for artists like her.
I had to brush up on my Shakespeare myself. For me, that's the best part of these Sunday pieces. I have to re-visit stuff I read ages ago, or do a deeper dive.
Every time I read your Sunday pages, it occurs to me that you squeezed out every cent's worth of value from your education at Georgetown. You are a consummate lit crit grad.
Verdi's Otello (Othello) is my favorite opera/Shakespeare tragedy, and I must have grown up surrounded by very different people than you did because this opera/play has always made perfect sense to me ever since I first read it in college and then subsequently became an operaphile. There was no doubt in my mind that shitty humans like Iago slink the earth.
Especially since WWII when the Nazis let loose on the land the political movement borne of jealousy of what others have, but that you want and yet are too stupid, feckless, and lazy to do for yourself, can and should be yours by way of killing, stealing, and "othering" those who have what you want.
This play is and always will speak to lethal entitlement.
And yes, it's too long. All operas from the 19th Century are too long, too, even if I don't play Wordle.
Thanks Whitney. Yeah, I was a pretty naive kid, I guess. But evil is, and always has been, all around.
My Shakespeare professor in college was awful. He was a failed actor who loved to listen to himself perform the monologues. He used to take off his glasses and put the side piece in his mouth -- that level of affectation. He wanted to convince us that the comedies were better literature than the tragedies. They aren't. He was very popular, everyone else loved him, I got a C+.
LOL. I had a professor like that for the Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville class in my American Studies program. The guy told us that just because he loved Poe didn't mean he found Poe's work psychologically reflective of his views and life experience. Okay. Then I found out he loved bats and spent summers living in caves. Too bad Stoker wasn't American.
Anyway, you got a C+ but look at you now! :)
I really like how your interviews and the current events, big and small, influence your writing. Iago is another “cuck” whose only redeeming feature is his ability to shut up in the end, unlike a Chucklecuck we know.
Thanks, Marie. Sundays are a clearinghouse for my brain, I suppose. Chuckles is Iago, isn't he? Passed over by the Ivy League, on a mission to lay waste to the world ever since.
“Villainy, villainy, villainy!” How long until all those villains finally get “Act V-ed”?
It feels like the length of every Shakespeare play spliced together, on endless repeat...
"Act V-ed" ha!
Wish I spoke Shakespearen
But English is my only reading language.
I once went to sn opera in NY. I left after about an hour as I didn't get it.
Oh well. NEXT LIFE.
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;
Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.
Thanks but the
Dude not only speaks a foreign language; he seems to speak it backwards?
Ok,
I found that
studylib.com
offers a
"Othello for Dummies."
I get at it as soon as I finish my required reading of the Great Gatsby.
So far it's kept me gasping.
Allright
who anonymously
Mailed me a copy of
Pepe 2030?
I'll pass it along to my
Great grandson.
At three his reading comprehension is already greater than mine.
It wasn't me but it looks like an interesting book!