January 2009
11 posts
“I’m going to get this woman. I shall take her away from her husband who is...”
– Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one...”
– T.S.Eliot
The Shrinking Violet →
““I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their...”
– William Shakespeare
The Shrinking Violet
I’ve always wanted to be one of those people whose life is up for various interpretations. You could write an epic novel about me or chronicle my worth in a few, carefully constructed sentences, for example- The tempestuous beauty resigned herself to a life of luxury in the Venetian count’s crumbling palazzo. His melancholic nature was the result of an ancient curse but could not suppress her joie...
“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;...”
– William Shakespeare
