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The ire directed at academics and institutions looking to 'decolonise' Shakespeare or read his work in relation to its prob- lematic qualities is rooted in the fear that problematising Shakespeare somehow makes him uncomfortable or unpalatable.
I have worked at the heart of the beast for a long time and I know that Shakespeare was not concerned with his audience's comfort, at least not much.

“There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, and liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.”

let's see if i can finish this before i ask Mat to sign it lol

i'm gonna regret saying this if he dies but Bailey PLEASE shut the fuck up

Was it for this the clay grew tall?
— O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?

took me about thirty pages to get used to the writing style but this book FUCKS oh my god

made it to the halfway point so now i'm taking a break. might finish it one day. probably not though.

still can't tell if i'm progressing so slowly because German takes longer to read or because i just fucking hate this book

i don't know how much tolerance for stories told from the perspective of children i've got left in me bro i am bored out of my mind

bestie you need to stop talking about semen i think i'm gonna hurl

only thirty pages left,, his ass is gonna die isn't he

Paul being under heavy shelling but still having potatoes as his number one priority is so real

aren't we as a society embarrassed that a book from seventy years ago is still so painfully relevant?? shouldn't we have been able to progress past this by now????

this is like 1984 except not annoying

It's true that for years before he died, I would look at his face and think, What a pity, what a waste. But the waste was my own, the waste was what I missed out on whenever I looked at him and saw just his addiction.

It's true that for years before he died, I would look at his face and think, What a pity, what a waste. But the waste was my own, the waste was what I missed out on whenever I looked at him and saw just his addiction.

his addiction.

my favourite part so far is Ben talking about Peter Sandys-Clarke in the exact same way that Captain talks about Havers in The Cricket Report

on this 106th anniversary of Wilfred Owen's death i'm honouring every time he roasted Robert Graves

fucking get his ass

Trommelfeuer, Sperrfeuer, Gardinenfeuer, Minen, Gas, Tanks, Maschinengewehre, Handgranaten – Worte, Worte, aber sie umfassen das Grauen der Welt.

dear lord i hadn't realised how much i'd been spoilt by the This is How You Lose the Time War narration 😭 i've tried two different audiobooks now and they're both fucking terrible

i might just listen to the Dutch one at least that one is read by my bestie Jeroen Kramer

i know it was a Serious Chapter™ but “Even an immortal can only ride the Circle line so long.” made me laugh so hard