📖 Recent Quotes 📖

• CHORUS: oh here's Haimon
  here's Haimon in pain and rage
  cheated of his future bride
  [Enter Haimon]
  KREON: in a rage about your future bride
  or are we still friends
  KAIMON: father, I'm yours
  KREON: good attitude, son
  good heart in your chest
  I need you like that

  an excerpt from Antigonick, written by Sophocles in -441

• [enter Kreon]
  KREON: here are Kreon's verbs for today
  Adjudicate
  Legislate
  Scandalize
  Capitalize
  here are Kreon's nouns
  Men
  Reason
  Treason
  Death
  Ship of State
  Mine
  CHORUS: "mine" isn't a noun
  KREON: it is if you capitalize it

  an excerpt from Antigonick, written by Sophocles in -441

• ... as one of those who make circumstances subject to them, rather than become subject to circumstances.

  an excerpt from Ralph the Heir, written by Anthony Trollope in 1871

📓 Recent Notes 📓

• I think about this book a lot, and F is reading Antigone in his English Language Arts class, so I finally bought my own copy of this. It's more fun than I remembered. Kreon is drawn so well, just a rich, instantly-recognizable leader. Carson is so efficient with this. I guess she's a poet!

  an note about Antigonick, written by Sophocles in -441

• I did enjoy the one page that was set at Oceano Dunes SVRA, where Brand New Box did a project once.

  an note about The Glass Hotel, written by Emily St. John Mandel in 2020

• An easygoing read from Mandel; like Sea of Tranquility it's clear that she's a really skilled writer. What is less clear to me is: what is this book... about? for? We have this slightly kaleidoscopic shifting from focus characters who overlap and mirror each other, mostly centered around Vincent, but with only some brief time really inhabiting her viewpoint. I found the Bernie-Madoff-equivalent story to be fine, but I don't really get: why? Who is clamoring for a humanizing story here? I have just found myself consistently confused by the aims of this book. Which is OK, that's an interesting thing by itself, I guess?

  an note about The Glass Hotel, written by Emily St. John Mandel in 2020

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