Philip Schwyzer
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Definite interest!
After such a year, I think we may be ready for a comedy in 2026?
After such a year, I think we may be ready for a comedy in 2026?
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Definite interest!
After such a year, I think we may be ready for a comedy in 2026?
After such a year, I think we may be ready for a comedy in 2026?
The Stratford Festival's artistic director, Richard Monette, died in 2008, and like William Hutt he is buried in Stratford's Avondale Cemetery. His #ShaxEpitaph is excellent as well.
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it."
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it."
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The Stratford Festival's artistic director, Richard Monette, died in 2008, and like William Hutt he is buried in Stratford's Avondale Cemetery. His #ShaxEpitaph is excellent as well.
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it."
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it."
In fact he has two #ShaxEpitaphs, with "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" at the bottom of the plaque. This is a common choice for actors, but fitting in his case: Hutt had triumphed as Prospero in his last performance at the Stratford Festival in 2005.
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
In fact he has two #ShaxEpitaphs, with "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" at the bottom of the plaque. This is a common choice for actors, but fitting in his case: Hutt had triumphed as Prospero in his last performance at the Stratford Festival in 2005.
Really it could say 'the gentle rain from Hippos'. Can't be sure.
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Really it could say 'the gentle rain from Hippos'. Can't be sure.
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Green Grave – The Cousin Collector
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December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Some further detail and images here: cousin-collector.com/blog/green-g...
Reposted by Philip Schwyzer
Et, in Arcadia:
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Et, in Arcadia:
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
Wendy Cope has already responded to this nonsense:
We make more fuss of ballads than of blueprints --
That's why so many poets end up rich,
While engineers scrape by in cheerless garrets.
Who needs a bridge or dam? Who needs a ditch?...
web.mit.edu/cordelia/www...
We make more fuss of ballads than of blueprints --
That's why so many poets end up rich,
While engineers scrape by in cheerless garrets.
Who needs a bridge or dam? Who needs a ditch?...
web.mit.edu/cordelia/www...
web.mit.edu
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Wendy Cope has already responded to this nonsense:
We make more fuss of ballads than of blueprints --
That's why so many poets end up rich,
While engineers scrape by in cheerless garrets.
Who needs a bridge or dam? Who needs a ditch?...
web.mit.edu/cordelia/www...
We make more fuss of ballads than of blueprints --
That's why so many poets end up rich,
While engineers scrape by in cheerless garrets.
Who needs a bridge or dam? Who needs a ditch?...
web.mit.edu/cordelia/www...
The first COP30 story I noticed on the BBC website was when a fire broke out
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The first COP30 story I noticed on the BBC website was when a fire broke out
I remember enjoying this -- mostly for the story, but also the verse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...
The Emperor's Babe - Wikipedia
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November 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I remember enjoying this -- mostly for the story, but also the verse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...
Standing ovation!
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Standing ovation!
Can't help feeling sad that this slow-reading journey is almost over!
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Can't help feeling sad that this slow-reading journey is almost over!
But a revelation to find how beautifully 'flights of angels sing thee to thy rest' translates in Afrikaans:
'Mag engelkore u na die rusplek sing.'
'Mag engelkore u na die rusplek sing.'
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
But a revelation to find how beautifully 'flights of angels sing thee to thy rest' translates in Afrikaans:
'Mag engelkore u na die rusplek sing.'
'Mag engelkore u na die rusplek sing.'
This one is on too many gravestones to count -- including the director of Night of the Living Dead.
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This one is on too many gravestones to count -- including the director of Night of the Living Dead.
So many actors who played the role (and some who didn't) have a quote from the last scene of Hamlet on their graves. That includes Walker White, who had a long run on Broadway in the early 1900s -- but why this line? I feel like it raises more questions than it answers? #ShaxEpitaphs
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
So many actors who played the role (and some who didn't) have a quote from the last scene of Hamlet on their graves. That includes Walker White, who had a long run on Broadway in the early 1900s -- but why this line? I feel like it raises more questions than it answers? #ShaxEpitaphs