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Thursday, 09/21/2017 3:31:34 PM

Thursday, September 21, 2017 3:31:34 PM

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Johnnyola....Thoughts on the Poet, on King Lear and his daughter Cordelia
His four great tragedies will be read forever by smart people and sentient beings. Lear like the other three is about so many things that shape what we are and are not, and our dreams and evils.........Lear is about an old King who must divest himself to the younger generation, his three daughters, two of which are waiting with baited breath, but not Cordelia, the youngest. The Shakespearean tragic universe is best encapsulated by Macbeth's comment, as I recall, that "Blood will have blood."

Once loosed upon the world, his tragic universe knows almost no bounds, in its capacity for murder and irrational destruction of people who after their foolishness, seek mercy. But Shakespeare's world shows them none, not even a morsel. Blood will have Blood. When at the end of King Lear, the king brought his dead daughter in his arms, and waliked with her upon the Elizabethan stage, this was too much heartfelt for people of that time. They wept at the injustice. In fact, for almost a century the play was performed for those erudite europeans with the end of the play actually changed. They wrote the last tragic scene out of the play itself. But a larger lesson is that old people want to be children and young again. They really do. Shakespeare's play is also about that, and about the tragic folly that can ensue, when people engage in fantasy as old people.

Remember too Lewis Carroll's line from Alice, "We are but older children dear, who fret to find our bedtime near." Having represented thousands of people charged with crimes, by the State, I have thought about that, with the older people. It really is true.
so the lesson here may be, we can never engage in fantasy. We can never remake our youth. We must not engage in nonsense as especially young people will see it as nonsense. Because they have young minds and they are smart. I know you know this, but the socialists have not the slightest idea of Shakespeare, who he was, or what European history is. They are bruttish and thuggish and lead by the Pied piper of Hamlin type old people. "Rats....." (read the poem...)

Chuck, never ever cowtow to a tyrant or a bully or a spoiled child. They will hustle you and break you in two and use you like a 50 dollar w h ore, or a trick. You know this to be true. Please share. They must learn. Let's champion adulthood and moral responsibility, virtue and creativity .........blah blah.
https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/playmenu.php?WorkID=kinglear

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