NOt so Xmas Thoughts
What to ponder during the Holiday break:
1) Shylock Is Shakespeare (University of Chicago Press), by Kenneth Gross of the University of Rochester, a virtuoso critic, identifies the moneylender with the playwright, making Shylock a character into whom the greatest of all writers poured his own ambivalence, anger and insecurity. Gross argues that Shakespeare found in Shylock a way "to articulate his own doubt, desire and rage, his troubled solitude." Gross imagines Shakespeare speaking to us, admitting, "This character I?ve made, this Shylock, is myself. We are both opportunists of reading and speaking, making capital of human weakness, error and accident."
2. Do not trust your biographer as Nadine Gordimer realized too late. ‘Ronald is my biographer,” she says. “ ‘He is dangerous.’ She paused with the kind of grimace easily mistaken for a smile: ‘It’s a very strange relationship.’ ” Indeed.
3. Archimedes did not shout "Eureka!" while having his bath after discovering the laws of buoyancy. But then the truth is not as exciting so Eureka! should stay.
4. There is a new theory on gravity. Quick! What are the old ones?
5. The new Swiss Army knife contains 85 devices, weighs 2lb and costs nearly £500. The Swiss knife issued to the Swiss Army does not have a corkscrew.
6. Nuns are blogging. Few appear to be troubled by their vows of celibacy, although one Filipino nun, calling herself Shireyu-san, confesses in her blog that she is constantly “tempted by the wants of the world . . . I know I must overcome the weakness of the flesh”.
7. One woman had 100,000 sex partners. And BBC is so much happy to be the 100,001st.
8. Almost a century later, a doctor now says that Thomas Hardy might have infected his own wife of syphilis.
9. God killed at least 2,272,365 people according to the Bible. The worst was when "The Lord smote the Ethiopians" (1 million) and when He delivered Israel into the hands of Judah (500,000).
10. How many did Satan killed, according to the Bible? Ten.
1) Shylock Is Shakespeare (University of Chicago Press), by Kenneth Gross of the University of Rochester, a virtuoso critic, identifies the moneylender with the playwright, making Shylock a character into whom the greatest of all writers poured his own ambivalence, anger and insecurity. Gross argues that Shakespeare found in Shylock a way "to articulate his own doubt, desire and rage, his troubled solitude." Gross imagines Shakespeare speaking to us, admitting, "This character I?ve made, this Shylock, is myself. We are both opportunists of reading and speaking, making capital of human weakness, error and accident."
2. Do not trust your biographer as Nadine Gordimer realized too late. ‘Ronald is my biographer,” she says. “ ‘He is dangerous.’ She paused with the kind of grimace easily mistaken for a smile: ‘It’s a very strange relationship.’ ” Indeed.
3. Archimedes did not shout "Eureka!" while having his bath after discovering the laws of buoyancy. But then the truth is not as exciting so Eureka! should stay.
4. There is a new theory on gravity. Quick! What are the old ones?
5. The new Swiss Army knife contains 85 devices, weighs 2lb and costs nearly £500. The Swiss knife issued to the Swiss Army does not have a corkscrew.
6. Nuns are blogging. Few appear to be troubled by their vows of celibacy, although one Filipino nun, calling herself Shireyu-san, confesses in her blog that she is constantly “tempted by the wants of the world . . . I know I must overcome the weakness of the flesh”.
7. One woman had 100,000 sex partners. And BBC is so much happy to be the 100,001st.
8. Almost a century later, a doctor now says that Thomas Hardy might have infected his own wife of syphilis.
9. God killed at least 2,272,365 people according to the Bible. The worst was when "The Lord smote the Ethiopians" (1 million) and when He delivered Israel into the hands of Judah (500,000).
10. How many did Satan killed, according to the Bible? Ten.
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