Susan Sontag talking with John Berger 1974: „What matters is the context. And what matters is the connection with ideas of action and if the notion of action, of praxis, is not examined if we don't examine the way we get information - what we do with information …“ 1/3

Hamlet_2026 III,2,166 PLAYER QUEEN Now what my love is, proof hath made you know, And as my love is siz'd, my fear is so. Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

Along the way low ceiling

#TolstoyReadalong „Kaum hatte er ein wenig Klarheit gewonnen, wie man leben müsse, da trat schon eine neue unlösbare Frage an ihn heran - der Tod.“ Anna Karenina III,31

László Krasznahorkai #SatantangoTogether (289) „Meister, du willst die ganze Welt in die Luft jagen!“ rief Petrina erschrocken. „Du willst das Nichts!“ Irimiás antwortete nicht.

HAMLET And blest are those Whose blood and judgement are so well co-meddled That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him In my heart’s core, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. #Hamlet_2026

HAMLET O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. #Hamlet_2026 III,2,1ff I like Hamlet's theory of acting.

László Krasznahorkai #SatantangoTogether (276) „ihre Aufgabe werde darin bestehen … Ereignisse, die ‚für unsere Aufgabe bedeutsam sind’, streng zu registrieren, wozu sie sich die unentbehrliche Fertigkeit aneignen müssten, ‚zwischen günstigen und ungünstigen Zeichen zu unterscheiden, klarer 1+

#TolstoyReadalong „… eine Idee, die dem Streben nach Gerechtigkeit entspringt, kann nicht unfruchtbar bleiben.“ Anna Karenina III,30

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OPHELIA O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword; Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, Th’ observed of all observers, quite, quite down! #Hamlet_2026 Act III s1 (146-150)

HAMLET Get thee to a nunnery. #Hamlet_2026 III,1,121 Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863 Hamlet and Ophelia, 1835–43 Art Institute Chicago

„Die Nationalökonomie lehrte, dass die Wirtschaftsmethoden, die den Wohlstand Europas begründet hatten und noch weiterentwickelten, unbestreitbare und allgemeingültige Gesetze waren. Die sozialistische Lehre versicherte, dass die Entwicklung auf Grund dieser Methoden in den Abgrund führe. 1+

HAMLET Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better to have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. #Hamlet_2026 Act II s2 (498-501)

HAMLET and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. #Hamlet_2026 II,2,595-598

„Was können denn Schulen helfen?“ “Sie wecken in den Leuten neue Bedürfnisse.“ #TolstoyReadalong Anna Karenina III,28

#MelvilleMonday How to get to fairy-land, by what road, I did not know; nor could any one inform me; not even one Edmund Spenser, who had been there...further than that to reach fairy-land, it must be voyaged to, and with faith. - Melville, The Piazza Tales

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

POLONIUS The actors are come hither, my lord. HAMLET Buz, buz! POLONIUS Upon my honour,— HAMLET Then came each actor on his ass,— #Hamlet_2026 Act II s2 (363-376)

HAMLET One speech in't I chiefly loved - 'twas Aeneas tale to Dido - and thereabout of it especially when he speaks of Priam‘s slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin at this line  #Hamlet_2026 II,2,440 ff Eugene Delacroix Self-portrait as Hamlet 1821 Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris

Bom dia ☀️ Um dia voltarei à morada das papoilas colher os versos vermelhos que semeei na seara. Um dia o vento estará maduro. Albano Martins

“Melville’s younger brother, Allan, who purchased Arrowhead from his brother, had inscribed on the chimney text from the story which remains for visitors to see along with an original copy of the story.” #MelvilleMonday

„Wir bilden uns ein, schon alles gefunden zu haben, wonach man in Europa noch sucht! Alles ist mir bekannt... Sind Sie über alles unterrichtet, was Europa in der Frage der Landarbeiterorganisationen bereits getan hat?“ “Nein, darüber weiss ich nur wenig.“ #TolstoyReadalong Anna Karenina III,27

In men-of-war, the space on the uppermost deck, round about the main-mast, is the Police-office, Court-house, and yard of execution, where all charges are lodged, causes tried, and punishment administered White-Jacket/Chapter XXXII. Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

“[…] a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. [+]

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! „Ah, Love, when lite closes, Dying the death of the just, May we vie with Hearth-Roses, Smelling sweet in our dust.“ Herman Melville

HAMLET I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; #Hamlet_2026 Act II s2 (286-289)

#Hamlet_2026 II,2,250 William Shakespeare Arden London/ New York 1982 HAMLET There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Montaigne, Essais, III, 13 „Notre grand et glorieux chef-d’œuvre c’est vivre à propos.“

He went up to seize her hand, and found she was as clammy as a marine deity, and that her clothes clung to her like the robes upon the figures in the Parthenon frieze. #SundaySentence Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure

„Der Gutsbesitzer mit dem grauen Schnurrbart war bestimmt ein unverbesserlicher Anhänger der Leibeigenschaft, ein alter, eingewurzelter Landbewohner und leidenschaftlicher Landwirt.“ #TolstoyReadalong Anna Karenina III,26

#Hamlet_2026 Hamlet: Words, words, words (II.1.205) Maybe my favourite line in my favourite play.

#TolstoyReadalong Anna Karenina III,25 „Aber du wirtschaftest doch auch mit Lohnarbeitern?“ „Wir sind eben Bauern und machen alles selbst. Ist einer unbrauchbar - fort mit ihm. Wir kommen auch ohne ihn zurecht.“

POLONIUS Mad let us grant him then. And now remains That we find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause. Thus it remains and the remainder thus. #Hamlet_2026 Act II s2 (100-104)

#Hamlet_2026 II,2,104ff POLONIUS Thus it remains; and the remainder thus: Perpend, I have a daughter — have while she is mine — Who, in her duty and obedience, mark, Hath given me this. Now gather and surmise. ⌜Reads.⌝ ‚To the celestial and my soul’s idol, the most beautified Ophelia‘ …

KING I entreat you both . . . rest here in our court Some little time: so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean, Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus That opened lies within our remedy. #Hamlet_2026 Act II s2 (10; 13-18)

ROSENCRANTZ Both your Majesties Might, by the sovereign power you have of us, Put your dread pleasures more into command Than to entreaty. GUILDENSTERN But we both obey, And here give up ourselves in the full bent To lay our service freely at your feet To be commanded. #Hamlet_2026 II,2,26ff

Vom Wegesrand 🚲

#TolstoyReadalong „Obgleich die Ernte aussergewöhnlich gut ausgefallen war, hatte es noch nie … soviel Misserfolge und soviel Widerspenstigkeit von seiten der Bauern gegeben wie in diesem Jahr. (…) Das alles geschah … weil die Leute fröhlich und unbeschwert arbeiten wollten 1+

POLONIUS (to Reynaldo) See you now: Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth. Thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out. #Hamlet_2026 Act II s1 (62-66)

OPHELIA. And with his head over his shoulder turned He seemed to find his way without his eyes, For out o' doors he went without their help And to the last bended their light on me. (2/2) He is silent on this visit, communicating with eyes & gestures- she's his last hope for human affection.

#Hamlet_2026 II,1,29-30 POLONIUS (to REYNALDO) You must not put another scandal on him, That he is open to incontinency - William Shakespeare Arden London/ New York 1982

#TolstoyReadalong „Alles muss bleiben, wie es war; nur wenn Sie sich selbst kompromittieren, werde ich mich gezwungen sehen, Massnahmen zum Schutze meiner Ehre zu ergreifen.“ [Alexej Alexandrowitsch] Anna Karenina III,23

HAMLET (to Horatio) As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on—  #Hamlet_2026 I,5,179-180 Eugène Delacroix, 1843 Hamlet spreekt met de geest van zijn vader Rijksmuseum