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How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.
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Posted on April 17, 2013 with 4 notes
Source: qwiklit.com
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In Defense of Romeo and Juliet: It's Not Childish, It's *About* Childishness - Noah Berlatsky - The Atlantic
Criticism that the classic doomed love story glorifies immaturity misses the point: Shakespeare was riffing on how people use the young/old binary to manipulate others.
The point of the play isn’t the exhilaration or the dunderheadedness of young love. Rather, the point is the language itself: the dazzling, disturbing rhetorical force of old/young, corrupt/innocent, experienced/naïve.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Arrested Development Is The Brothers Karamazov » Helen Rittelmeyer
Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, unless the family consists of a morally depraved patriarch and three highly differentiated siblings who, after years out of contact with each other, convene at the family home for a slowly escalating mess made inevitable by their respective and collective dysfunctions, in which case that family is unhappy in the same way as the Karamazovs.
If the same family is subjected to a criminal prosecution after being set up by a conniving quasi-sibling, if the brothers keep trying to mooch money off the family, and if the eldest brother is brash, the middle one smart, and the youngest one saintly, then we have to consider the possibility that this family actually is the Karamazovs, even if they call themselves the Bluths and they appear in an early 2000s Fox sitcom and not a nineteenth-century Russian novel. In which case Mitch Hurwitz (who has a degree in theology from Georgetown) is Dostoevsky. That’s probably the most farfetched parallel in this comparison. The rest are uncanny.
A fun read and plausible comparison, certainly!
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An Excellent conceited Tragedie…
Title page of the first edition.
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Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare -
…you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
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Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.
David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (via larmoyante)(via larmoyante)
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