Caitlin
Dune Feels
“The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia... No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green...
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Caitlin
Aug 28, 20217 min read
Hope Out of Cynicism in "No Country For Old Men"
No Country for Old Men has impressed me and haunted me from the start, when I insisted upon its perfection in a LiveJournal post with my...
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Apr 2, 20216 min read
GEAR CHANGE
New things are happening. But first, some housekeeping. Film Month went too fast These past four weeks, I actually felt like I was back...
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Mar 6, 20215 min read
FILM: Week One
March is Women’s History month in a handful of English-speaking countries, and it’s Film Theory month at my house, and one of my books...
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Feb 7, 20213 min read
Esoterica: Ants, serpents, and dead boyfriends
Writing about drawing feels like dancing about art, so until I unveil my “Final Project” at the end of the month, I shall serve up bonnes...
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Jan 16, 20214 min read
Furniture: Week Two
This week, I made the executive decision to go ahead and actually read the entire Furniture: World Styles from Classical to Contemporary...
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Jan 9, 20213 min read
Furniture: Week One
CHAIRS. We love chairs. We think we need chairs. But chairs are a strange parasite on humanity, and yet, they are still adorable. They...
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Jan 1, 20212 min read
First Day 2021
Compared to this day one year ago, today has proven mercifully uneventful. It began a little differently—my parents had stayed the night...
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Dec 13, 20209 min read
Shakespeare Miscellany
Since I already realized that one's study of Shakespeare never ends, I cannot conclude, but I shall outline all the deep thoughts I had...
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Dec 6, 20204 min read
The Sonnets Part Four
Oh boy, what a stark contrast between this batch and what came heretofore. Billy was in a MOOD and that mood was sexual frustration. Not...
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Nov 28, 20205 min read
The Sonnets Part Three
This second half of the "faire youth" collection was a whirlwind. There's more drama in this forbidden relationship than all the plays...
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Nov 22, 20203 min read
The Sonnets Part Two
Sixty-three sonnets into this home stretch and I am already wheezing. I'm half-way through what is deemed the "faire youth" sequence and...
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Nov 14, 20203 min read
The Sonnets, Part One (Intro)
Scholars have a lot to say about The Sonnets. You poke one with a pin and they burst with a plethora of philosophizing on their form and...
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Nov 7, 20205 min read
Sundry Poems & Whatnot
A LOVER'S COMPLAINT All signs point to "A Lover's Complaint is the author's exercise in popular literary form and it was thrown in with...
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Oct 31, 202011 min read
Big poems & Such
This week, we jump right into the deep end of Shakespeare's poetry with his lengthy (and sexy) dedications to the Earl of Southhampton....
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Oct 24, 202013 min read
Edward III
The first half of this play is a telenovela, and the second half is a straight up rip-off of the Henriad. I did not hate it. In fact, it...
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Oct 18, 20208 min read
All Is True (2018)
It was not easy for me to resist watching Sir Ken Branagh’s most recent addition to his Shakespeare oeuvre. My year-long project has been...
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Oct 17, 202014 min read
The Two Noble Kinsmen
One act into this one, I was already weary of this half-Shakespeare crap. And I still have Edward III to slog through, although that one...
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Oct 10, 202015 min read
Henry VIII, aka All Is True
This play is cursed. And so cursed, that even in the reporting this week, I have hit some snags. So I'm not going to fight it. It's one...
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Oct 3, 202021 min read
The Tempest
Here we are, at the (near) end of Shakespeare’s direct influence on Elizabethan theatre. And it’s where hell empties itself because “all...
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