“You must understand one thing. We own nothing except ourselves. This world and its laws, allows us nothing, except ourselves. There is nothing we can leave behind when we die, except the memory of ourselves.”
— Styles,
in the township play Sizwe Bansi is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona.
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I made this tag for one post only, really. Maybe it’ll be used again, maybe not. In any event, it is now part of my growing plethora of tags! :D
Semi-stoicism by necessity
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream seemed like a really boring play, at least when compared to the splendid Othello (Iago for teh win! ), so I decided to skip reading it, and just go to the showing of the 1999 movie that was arranged as part of this course I’m taking.
The movie didn’t exactly make [...]
2007-10-10 — Quote of the Day
The Moor is of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by the nose
As asses are.
— Iago,
Othello, act 1, scene 3.
Bragging…
Is a thing commonly approved of in our current culture. But seeing as Ithink most of our current culture is crap, here’s what my English professor had to say about the first obigatory activity I handed in a couple of weeks ago:
“Hi, Terje–
This is VERY nicely done! While there are a few slips here and [...]
Romeo + Juliet
For long periods of my life, I’ve nurtured a completely irrational dislike for the actor Leonardo di Caprio, a dislike probably rooted in my background as a male kid in the late 90s, when “Leo” was the dream boy of every girl, and the envy of every boy. And, as is so very often the [...]
Mellom Slagene
Grufullt lite foredrag jeg holdt på museet i kveld. Et språklig togkrasj, siden jeg skrev førsteutkastet på riksmål, før jeg plutselig innså at syntaksen min når jeg snakker er mer nynorsk, hvorpå et kaotisk og halvhjertet forsøk på å tilpasse stilen muntlig framføring oppsto.
Som sagt, språket er katastrofe, innholdet noe bedre. Poster foreløpig tekst, så [...]
The Silly Little Girl And The Beast — BS1×17 Eternity
First of all, I think these episodes with Angelus, as well as the rare episodes where Angel shows his less brooding side, really shows that David Boreanaz can do more than one part. Because seriously, there’s few similarities between these characters, and although Angelus’s often somewhat overplayed, I suspect that’s the way Boreanaz’s been instructed [...]
Curse upon curse upon blasphemous curse!
Today, I found out that the day the American Drama Group Europe perform Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in the Archbishop’s Palace here in Trondheim, is the second day of the Bjørnson Festival of International Literature, where I’ll be working as a volunteer. This is kinda crappy, as I’ve been looking forward to seeing the [...]
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