Welcome to the next post in The Adventures of Roland! You can find all the previous posts in Roland’s escapades here. Each installment typically comes out around once a month or so – although admittedly that has not been the case as of late. Also in case you aren’t aware, …
Tell all the truth but tell it slant —Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth’s superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind — – Emily Dickinson A few weeks ago I discussed the play Hamlet in relation to …
Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it in appropriate events. – Ralph Waldo Emerson ; History “For a good work …
Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Hamlet – Act V, Scene ii, 219-220 In 1921 T.S. Eliot published a little article discussing what he viewed as the inconsistencies with the play Hamlet by Shakespeare. The piece is short and entitled Hamlet and His …
