The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Donkeys in iron

Talbot is one of Shakespeare's heroic brutes in arms, esteeming only others of like ilk, a fearless and loyal slaughterer not much different in personality and moral outlook, I imagine, from a pirate chieftain or a leading mafia soldier, though perhaps more learned in the ideology of heroism and chivalry.

Reading 1 Henry VI.

Reportedly, Karl Marx and his family read together evenings and annually went through all of Shakespeare's plays.

No exceptions.

Why?

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