heirs to all eternity
Aug. 31st, 2013 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaHeirs of All Eternity is from Love's Labour's Lost and was misquoted in Child of the River, but I'm using it anyway and I know there's going to be a Shakespeare on the Common of that play one fine summer and I'm going to regret that. It is also the name of a very excellent essay on the books of Confluence, the essay in which I discovered Paul Park, Brian Aldiss, and Ian Watson, and you're going to have to take a trip to the Internet Archive to read it, because Fantastic Metropolis is dead for now, alas. Something to do with a software update.
All The World's A Stage is from As You Like It, and meanwhile, one of the characters was playing a game of The Floor Is Made Of Lava.
As You Like It, as performed by an all-male troupe of five as things were done in Shakespeare's time (although women began appearing on stage half a century later), with some upside down chairs set at an upside down table filling in for the Forest of Arden, was hysterically funny.
Phoebe is a moon, but a moon of Saturn, for she is a Titan as well as a shepherdess. Nay, you want an actual moon, or rather, a lanthorn, go see A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Somebody there was talking about the Roman baths and vandalism, and some of the things they put there were like "may your shoes burn," and stuff. I think I mentioned gadzooks and zounds here, which sound quaint today but were things you just didn't say in polite company back in the early 1600s. On the other hand, in Stand on Zanzibar's 2010, the most common insult is "bleeder" which implies a genetic defect.
Burning question: On the subject of gendered words, when's the last time you heard senatrix used? Or curatrix?
All The World's A Stage is from As You Like It, and meanwhile, one of the characters was playing a game of The Floor Is Made Of Lava.
As You Like It, as performed by an all-male troupe of five as things were done in Shakespeare's time (although women began appearing on stage half a century later), with some upside down chairs set at an upside down table filling in for the Forest of Arden, was hysterically funny.
Phoebe is a moon, but a moon of Saturn, for she is a Titan as well as a shepherdess. Nay, you want an actual moon, or rather, a lanthorn, go see A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Somebody there was talking about the Roman baths and vandalism, and some of the things they put there were like "may your shoes burn," and stuff. I think I mentioned gadzooks and zounds here, which sound quaint today but were things you just didn't say in polite company back in the early 1600s. On the other hand, in Stand on Zanzibar's 2010, the most common insult is "bleeder" which implies a genetic defect.
Burning question: On the subject of gendered words, when's the last time you heard senatrix used? Or curatrix?
