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SO GOOD

"What is honour compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."

For ARTT1106 - but I think I'll read the other two essays while I'm here, just for fun. Love the start of 'The Painter of Modern Life', but trails off towards the end. Interesting nonetheless. "By 'modernity' I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable." "[...] genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered at will"

Wow. This suddenly got really compelling in Act 3 out of nowhere. I guess Shakespeare just woke up halfway through? Absurd comedy juxtaposed with unrelenting, gruesome tragedy. Fascinated by how quickly Titus changes, from cruel victor to grief-stricken father to mad revenger. Lavinia, Aaron and Tamora are so interesting, and I love the rich intertextuality. Collapsing binaries! Human/animal, civilisation/wilderness!

Nothing like a natural disaster to catch up on my reading for uni, I guess.