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winterhemlock · 2 years
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wheres that one quote about the guy obsessively downloading media and staying up all night to do it and saying "its like all my birthdays have come at once" and its about like.. attachment in the digital age where archiving is easy as fuck. i havent given enough consideration nor read enough on the topic to have well formed opinions but the wording of it is so good it plays in my mind without warning
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winterhemlock · 2 years
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Isn't it strange how this castle changes as soon as one imagines that Hamlet lived here. As scientists we believe that a castle consists only of stones, and admire the way the architect put them together. The stone, the green roof with its patina, the wood carvings in the church, constitute the whole castle. None of this should be changed by the fact that Hamlet lived here, and yet it is changed completely. Suddenly the walls and the ramparts speak a different language. The courtyard becomes an entire world, a dark corner reminds us of the darkness of the human soul, we hear Hamlet's "To be or not to be." Yet all we really know about Hamlet is that his name appears in a thirteenth-century chronicle. No one can prove that he really lived here. But everyone knows the questions Shakespeare had him ask, the human depths he was made to reveal, and so he too had to be found a place on earth, here in Kronborg.
— Hamlet's Castle by Gordon Mills
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winterhemlock · 2 years
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Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things
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winterhemlock · 2 years
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alley cat gives unsolicited advice
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