Status Updates From King Lear

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in, by divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.” ☕️🍂🧦

i love spooky season

I was today years old when I realized that Edgar’s wild line in King Lear—“Child Rowland to the dark tower came”—inspired Robert Browning’s 1855 poem, which Stephen King then transformed into his epic Dark Tower series starring Roland Deschain.