Zachary Lesser
@zacharylesser.bsky.social
Book history, Shakespeare etc. Views my own, not my "neutral" employer's. Header is: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org
People say this?
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
People say this?
"just" or "also"? I think it's an inside etymology joke
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"just" or "also"? I think it's an inside etymology joke
(My eyeball/memory test also would put Doc ahead, but I was on the east coast)
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
(My eyeball/memory test also would put Doc ahead, but I was on the east coast)
Gooden way ahead of him by the metrics like WAR and JAWS. Like, surprisingly far ahead when I just checked
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Gooden way ahead of him by the metrics like WAR and JAWS. Like, surprisingly far ahead when I just checked
And now I learn that you have been writing McWhirtles, Curtis!
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
And now I learn that you have been writing McWhirtles, Curtis!
Yikes! The rules were made up, I believe, by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal, who invented the genre. Don't know about their email. They didn't have email back then.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_...
Double dactyl - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yikes! The rules were made up, I believe, by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal, who invented the genre. Don't know about their email. They didn't have email back then.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_...
I appreciate that
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I appreciate that
*so pleased to SEE his hard work....
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
*so pleased to SEE his hard work....
Many many congratulations! Wonderful
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Many many congratulations! Wonderful
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Here's one I once wrote
Higgledy Piggledy
Vladimir Nabokov
Published Lolita to
Scorn from his wife.
Though she was never that
Semiological,
She knew the saying, "Art
Imitates life."
Higgledy Piggledy
Vladimir Nabokov
Published Lolita to
Scorn from his wife.
Though she was never that
Semiological,
She knew the saying, "Art
Imitates life."
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Here's one I once wrote
Higgledy Piggledy
Vladimir Nabokov
Published Lolita to
Scorn from his wife.
Though she was never that
Semiological,
She knew the saying, "Art
Imitates life."
Higgledy Piggledy
Vladimir Nabokov
Published Lolita to
Scorn from his wife.
Though she was never that
Semiological,
She knew the saying, "Art
Imitates life."
And that you can't use a word that has been used before in a published Double Dactyl
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
And that you can't use a word that has been used before in a published Double Dactyl
When I learned the rules, it was that that line must be a single double-dactylic word, like "intersubjectively" or "nonpersonality"
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
When I learned the rules, it was that that line must be a single double-dactylic word, like "intersubjectively" or "nonpersonality"
Excellent. The maths/sociopaths rhyme justifies the slight violation in stanza 2, line 2.
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Excellent. The maths/sociopaths rhyme justifies the slight violation in stanza 2, line 2.
A very palpable hit
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A very palpable hit
Last winter if you called the jury hotline the night before your scheduled jury duty to see if they really needed you, the recorded voice said, "if your juror number is 100 to 246, you do not need to appear tomorrow. Go birds."
That's the situation we're dealing with here in Philly
That's the situation we're dealing with here in Philly
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Last winter if you called the jury hotline the night before your scheduled jury duty to see if they really needed you, the recorded voice said, "if your juror number is 100 to 246, you do not need to appear tomorrow. Go birds."
That's the situation we're dealing with here in Philly
That's the situation we're dealing with here in Philly
Go birds is unique. Go birds
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Go birds is unique. Go birds
No. None of those are like go birds
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
No. None of those are like go birds
Come on, with his following, Joe gets at least 20!
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Come on, with his following, Joe gets at least 20!
Under a heading like "Media Appearances"?
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Under a heading like "Media Appearances"?
Including the whole Variorum Shakespeare project. Sheesh, what an enormous waste of talent. Lighting $100 bills on fire and watching it burn.
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Including the whole Variorum Shakespeare project. Sheesh, what an enormous waste of talent. Lighting $100 bills on fire and watching it burn.
Yes that's hopefully our saving grace. Every Trump wannabe so far has crashed and burned because they don't have what he has.
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Yes that's hopefully our saving grace. Every Trump wannabe so far has crashed and burned because they don't have what he has.