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A Play Within a Play, Methinks
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” From the Second Quarto edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act III, Scene II, spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to Prince Hamlet’s probing question: “Madam, how like you this play?” For the context (within the scene), read here. Or, for Mel Gibson’s performance of the later part of Scene…
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Magnum Opi to Dream By
The list: [Bach – St Matthew Passion] [Mozart – Requiem] Perhaps not his magnum opus, but ohla, Lacrimosa! [Vivaldi – Gloria] [Debussy – La Mer]
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Spend Time with a Masterpiece
Spend time with a masterpiece and you’ll discover something inescapable: You’re made for Heaven. Spend time with a masterpiece and this truth might feel like hope. Spend time with a masterpiece and you might have a sense that something here is true, that something here is right, that justice and real love are possible. It’s…
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What Does the World Owe You?
We’ve all met this person. They have no regrets. They’re never wrong. They never say they’re sorry. It’s somehow always the other person’s fault. Whether this person realizes it or not, they think and live as if the world is their oyster and whatever pearl is to be had is owed them. Usually, this person…
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Grace and Redemption in The Homesman
Like some books, some films change us forever. The Homesman changed me. It is desolate, yet strangely beautiful. The plot concerns the transportation of three mentally disturbed women back across the unsettled Western territories of the United States. It gives another side of how the west was won that is rarely depicted by Hollywood. One of the three women…