“Murder most foul, as in the best it is”… but the murder of yet another innocent family in Gorlovka, East Ukraine, properly qualifies for being “most foul, strange and unnatural.” And, given that brevity is the soul of wit (1), in the short video, linked to this blog, brevity is the soul of horror.
We walk through what remains of the house of a family wiped out by the guns of Kiev’s “freedom fighters”, nomenclature of frightful, macabre and Reaganesque memory. Continue reading
“ Out, damned spot! out, I say! … What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.”(Macbeth, act 5, sc. 1)
That policemen have a license to kill sounds a somewhat harsh way of stating the obvious. Most of us don’t think about it as, equally obviously, we assume the police to be the warden of order. I say order and not law for two reasons. Continue reading
… a double plunge into…(Hamlet 3.1)
Recent American history proves that various successive Administrations expect the populace to believe anything, provided it is quite incredible. Continue reading
A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.Two Gentlemen from Verona
Some agree that it is possible to measure a character from his appearance (“… costly thy habit as thy purse can buy….” (1)), from his demeanor (“So may the outward shows be least themselves, the world is still deceived with ornament” (2)), and from what he says (does it convey substance or “charms ache with air and agony with words”? (3))
Appearance, demeanor and words peaked my curiosity, in the shape of Continue reading
“Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.”Hamlet, 1.3
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Some critics in that group have objected to the unwarranted intrusion, on the grounds that the blogs in the “Your Daily Shakespeare” website are alien to literature. Continue reading
“Time’s glory is…Rape of Lucrece
That Hillary Rodham Clinton would attempt to, and probably will be, the next president of the United States, is the best un-kept secret of the last few years, whose confirmation has just become official. Continue reading
“… out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety”King Henry IV, part 1
The FBI has stealthily uncovered and arrested two dangerous New York terrorists of the gentler sex, who were conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction – another victory in the war on terror. The originality of the case – which distinguishes it from about 150 other “sting” operations – is that it starts with a poem. Continue reading
“…all is uneven and every thing is left at six and seven.”King Richard II, act 2, sc. 2
It is hard to imagine how the chroniclers of the mainstream media can still maintain that the Ukraine coup of February 2014 had anything to do with democracy. It is an endeavor similar to mingling oil with water, or, in the language of chemistry, to amalgamate bodies of heterogeneous principles. But if Paris was worth a Mass, a salary is worth a lie, however grand, or gross. Continue reading
CASSIUS Did Cicero say any thing?Julius Caesar, act 1, sc. 2
It was almost inevitable that the meteoric rise to fame of Syriza would prove “too rash, too sudden, too unadvised, too like the lightning that ceases to be, ere one can say, “it lightens.”(1)
But masses are notoriously impermeable to deduction and little solicitous about the Continue reading
He who watches the mainstream news, or alternative sources, with videos showing beheadings by Isis, and the slaughter of civilians in Novorussia by the army of democracy, has reasons for pessimism. The news may prompt a mood where this goodly frame the earth seems a sterile promontory, and this most excellent canopy, the air, this brave overhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, may appear altogether but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Still, as we are closing in on this year’s St. Valentine festivity – it is time for a respite Continue reading