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Shakespeare on Antiseptic and Anesthetic Words

Posted on May 5, 2014 by jimmie

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2 So says Juliet, thinking that, yes, Romeo is a Montague by last name, and as such an enemy of her family. But she does not care – so much so Read More

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Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and the Brothers Karamazov

Posted on December 11, 2013 by jimmie

“When I consider everything that grows, Holds in perfection but a little moment, That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows, Whereon the stars in secret influence comment.” (SON.15) While considering the lies (except one), uttered by Obama at Mandela’s funeral, I returned to the “Brothers Karamazov”, as a kind of “phylosophy’s sweet milk” and Read More

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Shakespeare, Mandela and Immeasurable Hypocrisy

Posted on December 7, 2013 by jimmie

“A huge translation of hypocrisy, Vilely compiled, profound simplicity” (Love’s Labours Lost, act 5, sc. 2) If it were possible to invent a hypocrisiometer (hypocrisy meter), from now to the day of Mandela’s funeral, the indicator would go out of range. Still, a virtual measurement that would demonstrate a few truths, however self-evident, and dealt Read More

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Shakespeare, Secrecy & Recent Information on 9/11

Posted on December 1, 2013 by jimmie

“Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He’s more secure to keep it shut, than shown. For vice repeated’s like the wandering wind, Blows dust in others’ eyes, to spread itself.” (Pericles, act 1, sc. 1)  As Dr. Johnson noted, the “industry of observation has divided the most miscellaneous and confused assemblages into Read More

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Shakespeare, Assange and How to Purchase a Coup d’Etat

Posted on May 10, 2013 by jimmie

“…  And oft is seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law.” (Hamlet, act 3, sc. 3) Comment. Julian Assange is a prisoner in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Meanwhile governmental agencies from various “democratic” countries are deploying a vast array of resources to destroy Wikileaks and to arrest its founder, the said Julian Read More

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Shakespeare, (purposeful) Blindness and Overpopulation

Posted on April 3, 2013 by jimmie

“…our very eyes Are sometimes like our judgments, blind!” (Cymbeline, act 4, sc. 1)   Comment.  By not acknowledging a problem we cannot fix it and as long as it remains invisible it will remain insoluble. In the instance, overpopulation is visible and its effects disastrous, but for reasons due to the sum-total of collective Read More

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Shakespeare, Easter, Habit and Curious Related Information

Posted on April 1, 2013 by jimmie

“How use doth breed a habit in a man!” (Two Gentlemen from Verona, act 5, sc. 4) Comment.  Now that this year’s Easter is past, here is some related or, if you like, remarkably useless information. To begin with, the strong though invisible chain of habit (as per this article’s quote) leads most of us Read More

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Shakespeare and the Medicinal Good Effects of a Good Wine

Posted on March 27, 2013 by jimmie

“A good sherris-sack hath a two fold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the crude, dull and foolish vapours which environ it: makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of quick, nimble, fiery and delectable shapes; which deliver’d over to the voice (the tongue) which is the birth, becomes Read More

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To Be or not to Be (an Accomplice of the Argentine Junta)

Posted on March 23, 2013 by jimmie

“… that is the question, Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? …” (Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1) Comment. Yes, indeed, is it nobler in the mind to be deaf and blind towards Read More

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Shakespeare, Physiognomy, the Pope and Lavater

Posted on March 16, 2013 by jimmie

“Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters…” (Macbeth, act 1, sc. 5 Comment. As usual, there is a barrage of opposing statements regarding the new Pope’s relation with the Argentinian Junta, responsible for the so-called “Dirty War” and the repression of the 1970s – 1980s. Repression is actually Read More

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