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Paul Christensen
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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra by William ShakespeareMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Someone once summed up the essence of Shakespeare’s ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA as follows: ‘Which is better, a virtuous self or a full self? Should people be good, or should they be vital?’
For that reason it is in my estimation Shakespeare’s most powerful play, despite its sprawling and fragmented structure (which is probably delibera Read more of this blog post »
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Perhaps the thing most readers remember about this book is the chapter on trepanners, those ardent souls who drill holes in their heads to achieve enlightenment. Who could forget the vivid description of the ‘schlurping and gurgling’ sounds made when ...more |
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The HBO series ROME (which I mostly enjoyed), for all its high budget and quality acting, couldn’t convey a fraction of what Shakespeare can using words alone. JULIUS CAESAR probably has more recognisably famous ’Shakespearean’ lines than any other pl ...more |
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Shakespeare’s Roman plays are his best, in my opinion. CORIOLANUS is a brilliant portrayal of the warrior Caius Marcius Coriolanus. The play opens with a plebeian rebellion against the patricians. Caius Marcius reveals his utter contempt for the plebs, ...more |
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The haunting image of a supreme ruler mysteriously seeking voluntary death also occurs in my 2015 work THE HERETIC EMPEROR (coincidentally, as I was unfamiliar with the Dune novels at the time, having only seen the Lynch film). DUNE MESSIAH is basical ...more |
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The Tower is probably the greatest collection of one of the best poets of all time. Written largely during the years of the Irish Civil War, The Tower contemplates the relation of art to the follies of human history. The title refers not only to the No ...more |
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Rupert Sheldrake’s ‘Science Set Free’ looks at what its author regards as ten key dogmas of the materialist worldview, showing that each in turn is either dubious or outright untenable. Sheldrake is a biochemist with a background in plant physiology. H ...more |
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― The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen's Land
― The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen's Land
“I swear it only hit me then, with full conscious force, who the real villains of this piece had been from start to finish…those lying, cancerous dogs of the mainstream media!”
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“Remember the Morning Star,” he enjoined.
But I didn’t tell him about Tegg, whose face was the starry void itself...”
― The Heretic Emperor
But I didn’t tell him about Tegg, whose face was the starry void itself...”
― The Heretic Emperor
“Childhood is bound like the Gordian knot with my memories of the Black Sea, and I still feel its waters welling up within me today. Sometimes these waters are leaden, as grey as the military ships that sail on their curved expanses, and sometimes they are blue as pigmented cobalt. Then would come dusk, when I would sit and watch the seabirds waver to shore, flitting from open waters to the quiet empty vastlands in darkening spaces behind me, the same birds Ovid once saw during his exile, perhaps; and the same waters the Argonauts crossed searching for the fleece of renewal.
And out in the distance, invisible, the towering heights of Caucasus, where once-bright memories of the fire-thief have transmuted into something weird and many-faceted, and beyond these, pitch-black Karabakh in dolorous Armenia.”
― The Heretic Emperor
And out in the distance, invisible, the towering heights of Caucasus, where once-bright memories of the fire-thief have transmuted into something weird and many-faceted, and beyond these, pitch-black Karabakh in dolorous Armenia.”
― The Heretic Emperor
“My dreams are all of fire – mother says dreams usually go by opposites, so does that mean the world will end in ice?”
― The Heretic Emperor
― The Heretic Emperor
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