Abbey Lee

Abbey Lee

Sylvia

What a pathetic blighting of the beauty and reality of childhood. Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility? * to learn snide and smutty meanings of words you once loved, like “fairy.” * to go to college fraternity parties where a boy buries his face in your neck or tries to rape you if he isn’t satisfied with burying his fingers in the flesh of your breast.

-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals

Sylvia

What a pathetic blighting of the beauty and reality of childhood. Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility? * to learn snide and smutty meanings of words you once loved, like “fairy.” * to go to college fraternity parties where a boy buries his face in your neck or tries to rape you if he isn’t satisfied with burying his fingers in the flesh of your breast.

-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals

One Cannot Be Enough Afraid

"Of the world as it exists, one cannot be enough afraid."

-- Theodore Adorno

One Cannot Be Enough Afraid

"Of the world as it exists, one cannot be enough afraid."

-- Theodore Adorno

Hamlet (3,3) Hazard So Dangerous

Claudius has presumably had a little time to calm his choler and to compose himself. He also has Guildenstern and Rosencrantz at his service and he is ready to take executive action after suffering Hamlet’s turn at being a playwright.

KING CLAUDIUS

I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;
I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
And he to England shall along with you:
The terms of our estate may not endure
Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
Out of his lunacies.

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Hamlet (3,3) Hazard So Dangerous

Claudius has presumably had a little time to calm his choler and to compose himself. He also has Guildenstern and Rosencrantz at his service and he is ready to take executive action after suffering Hamlet’s turn at being a playwright.

KING CLAUDIUS

I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;
I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
And he to England shall along with you:
The terms of our estate may not endure
Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
Out of his lunacies.

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