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Why Shakespeare

Why Shakespeare

Timely RecollectionThere are instances in Shakespeare’s accepted canon that show how — as an author — he made up words. Some of these are even descended into our current vernacular and admitted to the gold standard, the Oxford English Dictionary.

Working on material for the next year, I was struck by the invention of language, and my guess — zero academic research here — is that Shakespeare used words that were already commonplace, stuff that fit close enough. Maybe the first in print or performance.

I don’t make up words, but I do love the way words go crashing into each other, and that’s one of the hooks — for me — and Shakespeare.

Shakespeare’s works are meant as performance, or the plays certainly are, dramatic interpretations, not something stoically situated on a page all alone. Some of the language is gritty and real; language that rolls up its sleeves and gets dirty to get work done.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – AC/DC

However, it’s that wordplay that hooked me. There are pieces of the common human experience we all encounter, and that spreads across lands and languages, some kind of shared, transcendent understanding.

As reflection, at the year’s end? It was performance of the Comedy of Errors — date looks at me, and tells me it’s one of her favorite plays.

To be sure, it’s got all the elements, twins, mistaken identity, mistreated wives who rule, and the trappings of a renaissance city drama, which, in its time, was a post-modern equivalency.

The word play, the intersection, and even when an actor missed a line, the action, the staging, and the rest of the crew carried the momentum forward. Bonus: it is both a funny play and a fun play.

Why Shakespeare

My hook for Shakespeare was the way astrology was shot through and through the plays, turns out, just as part of the cultural backdrop.

Advancing my own studies, that singular lightbulb moment, again, this is me, at that moment I read a passage about astrology being nothing more than language.

Like poetry, astrology is language that is highly charged, but it’s merely language, nothing more.

Why Shakespeare

The “why” of my continuing Shakespeare fascination comes back to the idea of language, and the language itself is merely a method of mapping thoughts and feelings.

That’s “why Shakespeare.”

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The Age of Shakespeare – Frank Kermode

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Xmas Tamales

Xmas Tamales

Xmas Tamales

Vincit Qui Primum Gerit

Vincit Qui Primum Gerit

astrofish.net

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Find me in Austin:

First weekend in the new year: January 4-5, 2020.
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11-5 both days. Readings are $45, with the discount?

New location, or old-new location.

2020: Spiritual Life Productions
Norris Conference Center
2525 W. Anderson Lane, Unit 365
Austin, TX 78757

Tuesday at Nature’s Treasures.

4103 North IH-35 Austin, Texas 78722
Store phone: 512-472-5015
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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Often in Austin — “It’s really him.”

Vincit Qui Primum Gerit (Austin Again)

See listing for details — astrofish.net/travel.

Vincit Qui Primum Gerit (Austin Again)

Xmas Budda

Xmas Budda

“First to arrive gets the best deal.”

Sun in Cap

Sun in Cap

Visual display, a power play? Power card? 4 of Disks, the Thoth deck.

While the card carries the alchemical symbols for Fire, Air, Earth, and Water? The current astrology chart, not so much.

Sun-in-Cap

Sun-in-Cap

Moon-Mars in Scorpio, Mercury in Sagittarius, then a crapload of Capricorn, finishing with a lone Venus in Aquarius.
Dec21,2019.chart

Dec21,2019.chart

The meaning is covered in the horoscopes, and individual chart interpretations are available live, from me.

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the Portable Mercury Retrograde

Portable Mercury Retrograde – Kramer Wetzel

Portable Mercury Retrograde: astrofish.net’s Mercury in Retrograde

Add to Terms

Add to Terms

“Do not dissemble, crush, burn, submerge, or expose to solvents. Do not operate or store over a 100 degrees. Failure to heed these warnings may cause the horoscopes to operate in an unsafe manner, or may result in an explosion.”

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Pink Cake: The Quote Collection – Kramer Wetzel

Pink Cake

Pink Cake: A Commonplace Book

  • ISBN-10: 1434805751
  • ISBN-13: 978-1434805751

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