Let all sleep, while to my shame I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand men Fortinbras is about as minor a character as can be in Shakespeare's Hamlet (1599? 1601?). He is mentioned offhandedly a few times, such as Horatio's re-telling of Hamlet's father killing Fortinbras' father in a duel in Act 1.1, or Claudius [...]
(This one has been in the queue for a while, and I figure I should get this out before the TV show starts up and everyone starts in with their retrospectives.) Just finished The Invisibles in its nice fat trade paperback editions, and, well, perhaps you had to be there. I mean, I'm reading this comic out [...]
Homer, The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles Lines 1-10 Rage-Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus [...]
From J.W. Rinzler's The Making of Star Wars:
Jordan Bernt Peterson was born in 1962, holds a B.A. in political science, and a PhD in psychology. He teaches at the University of Toronto. Like a lot of smart people, he was a very successful and interesting figure in his own field, who then decided to branch out and start bloviating about other fields [...]
I'm not one of those people who are glued to book reviews and clamoring to read the latest thing, despite my profession. I prefer to give books a bit of time to age, and to see if it's just going to be a flash in the pan that no one will care about in a [...]
Literal Machines 