“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” --Sylvia Plath

Sunday, July 29, 2012

"Short Lecture on Shakespeare"

by Mary Ruefle, "Twenty-Two Short Lectures," Madness, Rack, and Honey, Wave Books, 2012

"They say there are no known facts about Shakespeare, because if it were his pen name, as many believe, then whom that bed was willed to is a moot point. Yet there is one hard cold clear fact about him, a fact that freezes the mind that dares to contemplate it: in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak."

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1 comment:

  1. I guess we all start and end the same. It's what happens in the middle that makes the difference.

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