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The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.
Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmasriddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.
Shakespeare is universal.
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.
To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.
They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
. . . good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.
I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".
When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.