A note on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's decision to "translate" Shakespeare's plays for a contemporary audience.
On the mythological and biological necessity of work: "You can only survive if you work, since so much is working against you."
Though Shakespeare may not have invented parapraxes, he certainly exploited their psychological depths long before Freud.
Some thoughts on the potential evolutionary genesis of intersubjectivity
We has them. I want a cheezburger, and I can has cheezburger, but I don't want to want one.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book—it is a plaything. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. How frequently the mere purchase of a book is mistaken for the appropriation of its contents.
Plays have to end, but no one so well as Shakespeare understood how to use them to offer the hospitality of time, the interim of friendship.
There's a way in which everything you see in a poem should be obvious when you see it, should be a duh!-moment.
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