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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 3h

Servant #2
“Let's follow the old Earl, and get the Bedlam
To lead him where he would; his roguish madness
Allows itself to any thing.”

#KingLear_2025

“Boys of Bedlam,” folk song, Steeleye Span

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Boys of Bedlam

YouTube video by Steeleye Span - Topic

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 14h

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks for sharing these designs — I can see the production in my mind’s eye

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 20h

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 2d

Glad to share. Could be awhile though

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d

teaching Woolf is going great, as you can see

A whiteboard drawing of Marge Simpson as Mrs Dalloway, done in red pen, with text that reads “Mrs Dalloway”

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 2d

That’s encouraging.

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 2d

He’s such a great writer—Nostromo blew me away. One of these days I’d like to get back to him — maybe The Secret Agent?

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 2d

FOOL.
Sings.
"He that has and a little tiny wit—
With heigh-ho, the wind and the rain-
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
Though the rain it raineth every day."

#KingLear_2025

A longer version of this song appears at the end of Twelfth Night:

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Feste's Song from "Twelfth Night"

YouTube video by Wm. Thomas Sherman

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d

Attended this great Anselm Kiefer exhibition last week in St Louis with my dear @lisasass.bsky.social

Some tremendous paintings, a few left me cold or baffled, those giant ones in the main hall truly were colossal and overwhelming.

I will say that his work must be a preservation nightmare.

Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 3d

“[Kiefer] had a long love affair with the STL Art Museum and #STL itself.”
His work first arrived in US in 1983. SLAM acquired first of its Kiefers in 1987.
Had an amazing time at this exhibit with @ianfjanssen.bsky.social. SLAM has made it crazy easy to go—accessible, expansive, memorable.

The paintings are bigger than a building, made just for St. Louis by one of the decorated artists on earth

In a temporary show at SLAM, you can see paintings tying the Mississippi to the Rhine – all for free

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

When I read the full transcript of the interview, I realized there had been no pushback, no corrections, no challenging follow-ups. The entire interview had been an open-ended opportunity for Trump to tell rambling lies, only to have them cleaned up into a more polished product.

60 Minutes Obeys in Advance

Read more here.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 3d

In late 19thC France, the modern world looked bright, bold, joyous. And here it is in pictorial form in Paul Signac's 'Les Andelys, les bains' (1886). It was a time of astonishing experimentation when artists were rethinking how we see.

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 3d

I’m thinking carefully about your interpretation. R & G’s expressions of love still seem ridiculously over the top to me, even in a world where kings are routinely flattered for gain. But I appreciate the different slant and am happy to agree to disagree.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

We've got you 👍

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Sam @sammyzorba.bsky.social · 4d

Nvidia accounts for roughly eight per cent of the market capitalization of the S. & P. 500, the highest concentration in any one stock in at least forty-five years.
- Stephen Witt, Information Overload, New Yorker, Nov 3, 2025

#sundaysentence

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 4d

Do you think their protestations of love at the beginning are true? I find them too overstated to believe, but King Lear apparently does. This is not meant to let Lear off the hook for his own difficult behavior.)

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 4d

I agree it’s a lot of folks to put up. OTOH, they’re both married to dukes and now each have the revenues/rights for 1/2 of England. I’m imagining a large country estate like a Downton Abbey or Brideshead.

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 4d

Lear spelled out the hundred knights in I.1:
“I do invest you jointly with my power,
Pre-eminence, and all the large effects
That troop with majesty.
Ourself, by monthly course,
With reservation of an hundred knights
By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode
Make with you by due turn.”

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 4d

I agree there’s plenty of room for differing interpretations. That’s part of what makes reading together so interesting imo. I don’t see wanton cruelty in this scene either. But I do see Regan and Goneril acting in ways contrary to their pledges of devoted love in Act 1

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 4d

Clown:
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.”

#ShakespeareSunday

Twelfth Night

a cartoon sun with a smiling face and blue eyes is waving its hand .

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 4d

Before our summer holiday in Wales, with mountains and hydrangeas in mind, she laid in so many tubes of cobalt, ultra-marine, and cerulean that I, too young to have any geographical notions as to where we were going, knew for a certainty that Wales would be blue.
#SundaySentence SylviaTownsendWarner

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 5d

I love this ridiculous mashup of olde english font and midcentury motifs, nothing says "colonial" like a multi-colored sputnik ball

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 5d

colonial inn sign, bossier city, louisiana, 1982

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 5d

Lying to get a bigger share of the kingdom may be understandable as a motive but doesn’t exactly demonstrate integrity. Nor does welching on an agreement (the hundred knights).

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 5d

At the least, it seems to me that this scene (Act 2.2) shows them as hypocrites who lied about how much they loved their father in the initial scene. Not seeing much love demonstrated here. 1/2

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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 6d

If you're thinking of doing #NovellasInNovember, you're in luck - here is an A-Z of brilliant novella suggestions!

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An A-Z of Brilliant Novellas

As Novellas in November is starting, I thought I’d recommend some novellas you might like to read. And after jotting down a few, I thought… would I be able to make a whole alphabet of t…

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