Titanic and Shakespeare Anniversaries
23 April 2016: It’s Shakespeare’s birthday, and the 400th anniversary of his death. So, an appropriate day for another entry in my blog…
Happy Birthday (and Deathday) Shakespeare. Thank you for all the pain, joy, suffering, ecstasy, love, hate and every other emotion in the dictionary. If we are to believe Harold Bloom, then you did nothing less than ‘invent the human as we continue to know it.’ I for one sure am grateful. You wrote so much wonderful stuff that it’s impossible to pick favourites, but I do love it when you have Macbeth tells us that ‘life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’! It might seem a bit bleak, but I find it liberating. Whenever I’m getting too stressed or busy, I take a deep breath and say to myself, ‘Don’t worry. Life is a tale told by an idiot.’ We strut and fret, but then the great void comes and we are gone forever. Thank you for that perspective, Shakespeare. Although, having said that, you, of course, live on. Death certainly doesn’t brag that you wander in his shade, because so long as we can breathe, or eyes can see, so long live your words, and they give life to thee!
Speaking of words, my own words have been out and about these past weeks. The Midnight Watch was published in the United States, Canada and The United Kingdom this month, which of course was very exciting. I had a wonderful review in the London Times, and elsewhere, and am looking forward to a review coming out soon in The New York Times Book Review.
Meanwhile, in Australia I have been travelling from town to town, city to city, giving talks in libraries and bookshops, on radio and TV about the Californian, the Titanic, the suffragettes and John Steadman’s drinking habits. There was lots of interest in the lead-up to the anniversary of the Titanic disaster on 14/15 April. My reviews, interviews and comments can be found on my webpage: http://www.daviddyer.com.au/reviews/
You can also see reviews, events and activities surrounding The Midnight Watch on my Facebook author page:
https://www.facebook.com/DavidDyerAut...
I’m now looking forward to the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May, and perhaps some time after that visiting the United States and the United Kingdom. Watch this space!
Happy Birthday (and Deathday) Shakespeare. Thank you for all the pain, joy, suffering, ecstasy, love, hate and every other emotion in the dictionary. If we are to believe Harold Bloom, then you did nothing less than ‘invent the human as we continue to know it.’ I for one sure am grateful. You wrote so much wonderful stuff that it’s impossible to pick favourites, but I do love it when you have Macbeth tells us that ‘life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’! It might seem a bit bleak, but I find it liberating. Whenever I’m getting too stressed or busy, I take a deep breath and say to myself, ‘Don’t worry. Life is a tale told by an idiot.’ We strut and fret, but then the great void comes and we are gone forever. Thank you for that perspective, Shakespeare. Although, having said that, you, of course, live on. Death certainly doesn’t brag that you wander in his shade, because so long as we can breathe, or eyes can see, so long live your words, and they give life to thee!
Speaking of words, my own words have been out and about these past weeks. The Midnight Watch was published in the United States, Canada and The United Kingdom this month, which of course was very exciting. I had a wonderful review in the London Times, and elsewhere, and am looking forward to a review coming out soon in The New York Times Book Review.
Meanwhile, in Australia I have been travelling from town to town, city to city, giving talks in libraries and bookshops, on radio and TV about the Californian, the Titanic, the suffragettes and John Steadman’s drinking habits. There was lots of interest in the lead-up to the anniversary of the Titanic disaster on 14/15 April. My reviews, interviews and comments can be found on my webpage: http://www.daviddyer.com.au/reviews/
You can also see reviews, events and activities surrounding The Midnight Watch on my Facebook author page:
https://www.facebook.com/DavidDyerAut...
I’m now looking forward to the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May, and perhaps some time after that visiting the United States and the United Kingdom. Watch this space!
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