"But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
google search how to recognise what you’re feeling when it’s not super intense or the Void
Black and White painting by Bob Ross
can i get uh……..McDeath™
“‘How much do you know about Shakespeare,’ I once asked a friend who has committed much of her life to studying the Bard. She replied, ‘Not as much as he knows about me.’ Remember this the next time someone tells you literature is useless.”
— Don’t Turn Away From the Art of Life, by Arnold Weinstein (New York Times, Feb. 2016)
local bitch decides to daydream instead of getting a degree
sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all
Hamlet: Do you have the time?
Horatio: For you, Hamlet? Hamlet, are you joking? Are you joking me? Hamlet. I will always have time for you. My time may be precious but you are more so. Hamlet, you… are a shining pearl in a sea of mediocrity. I would do anything for you.
Hamlet: No, like what time is it?
at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.
mostly dark academia shitposting - any pronouns
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