A post associating a T.S. Eliot quotation, a Tolkien passage, and a Gaiman episode from “American Gods” with ICE’s withdrawal from Minnesota.
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Tag Archives: Macbeth
T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Gaiman, and ICE
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Hegseth, Banquo, and Murders at Sea
Pete Hegseth denying he gave the order to kill survivors of a Navy attack is reminiscent of Macbeth distancing himself from Banquo’s murder.
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Macduff as the Trump Resistance
“Macbeth” is probably the best Shakespearean play for capturing the Trump presidency and Trump resistance.
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Dems Channel Inner Lady Macbeth
Shakespeare and Henry James showed up in commentary on this weeks events: the impending government shutdown and the required gathering of 800 military leaders.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Government shutdown, Henry James, Pete Hegseth, Turn of the Screw, U.S. military, William Shakespeare Comments closed
A.I. and the Tech Bro Accelerationists
AI is the darling of Silicon Valley accelerationists, who sound like the old Italian Futurists and who appear never to have read Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Andy Beckett, climate change, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Frankenstein, Greg Olear, Italian Futurism, Mary Shelley, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tobias Wilson-Bates, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Trump Doth Murder Sleep
Trump and Musk are current-day Macbeths, out to murder American democracy.
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Biden, Macbeth, and Passing the Torch
An MSNBC commentator cited a line from “Macbeth” to characterize Joe Biden’s decision not to run for a second term/
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What Are Days For? Larkin’s Non Answer
In “Days,”Larkin urges us to make the most of each day.
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