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i want to make a "he should've been at the club" post about hamlet but there's so much controversy about his actual age that i can't while still maintaining any claim to academic integrity

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The Six Stages of Having Too Many Books

By Vi-An Nguyen

For The New Yorker

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Finished something new! Which of these do you recognise from your shelves?

Shop

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love when something is about something else

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the cruel choice between pdf (free) vs physical copy (annotatable)

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I love you PBS I love you NPR I love you public libraries I love you wikipedia I love you project gutenberg I love you librivox I love you libby I love you hoopla I love you openlibrary I love you internet archive I love you resources that make information free and accessible to the public

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there should be more options than suffering via employment and suffering via unemployment

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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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Live theater in the His Dark Materials universe must be wild. Surely an actor's daemon also has lines to recite, so their daemon's form probably also factors into casting decisions. Maybe some plays have vague character descriptions for daemons, but I bet other plays have really specific or central daemon characters. And sure, big-budget theaters can afford to hire a separate actor with a particular daemon to stand backstage while their daemon plays its part onstage, but community theaters don't have those kinds of resources.

Like if you're casting for Julius Caesar, surely the real historical Caesar had a pretty iconic daemon, right? Are you going to cast an actor with a pigeon daemon as Caesar and just have everyone suspend their disbelief that it's Caesar's lioness, ἁμαρτία?

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witchgrass, louise glück

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nodding my head and going "yes!" while reading problematic media so everyone knows i endorse everything happening and i think its awesome

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you disagreed w me in an intellectually honest way. we're friends now.

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hello?

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Dev Patel should really play Jonathan Harker. I want to see him get bisexually tortured in a castle again.

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margaret atwood, november

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the tempest (c. 1611) - william shakespeare

"hiii"