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britneyshakespeare · 9 months ago

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been thinking about this a lot lately. if i had the opportunity to leaf through a first folio, i would lick one of the pages and that would be my contribution to history. reblog with which play you would lick in a first folio i'd do antony and cleopatra

#she hath such a celerity in dying #text post #shakespeare #first folio #what genuinely fascinates me is that unlike almost every other collectible item. first folios are of MORE interest for how they've altered #there is more to study in them if we can see readers' annotations or the names of owners or mark-ups #or their food stains or their cats' pawprints walking across the page!!!#well there is no such thing as a first folio (an authentic one) of little value. all of them are of value for the historical preservation #and in a sense the stories of what have happened to the individual copies are ALSO preservation #i am a believer that what happens to an object is also a form of art.#the book is a piece of art and it has inherent value. the wear and visible usage of it adds to it #and i would love for one of the first folios in the world to be known as the one diana britneyshakespeare once licked #i would be building on the history of that book #what other bitch you know is gonna lick a 400-year-old book?#i have thought about this TOO much. no one is ever gonna let me near a first folio huh #this is by the way NOT an intrusive thought in the slightest bc I EXPERIENCE NO DISPLEASURE AT THE IDEA #bring me one!!! bring me the one that belonged to milton!!! i have plans for it 👅

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