Thomas Liam
@thomasliam300.bsky.social
#SundaySarton
Leonard Woolf said, “If you knew Kot well, you understood what a major Hebrew prophet must have been like. If Jeremiah had been born in a ghetto village of the Ukraine in 1882, he would have been Kot.”
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Leonard Woolf said, “If you knew Kot well, you understood what a major Hebrew prophet must have been like. If Jeremiah had been born in a ghetto village of the Ukraine in 1882, he would have been Kot.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._S._K...
S. S. Koteliansky - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 28, 2026 at 1:35 AM
#SundaySarton
Leonard Woolf said, “If you knew Kot well, you understood what a major Hebrew prophet must have been like. If Jeremiah had been born in a ghetto village of the Ukraine in 1882, he would have been Kot.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._S._K...
Leonard Woolf said, “If you knew Kot well, you understood what a major Hebrew prophet must have been like. If Jeremiah had been born in a ghetto village of the Ukraine in 1882, he would have been Kot.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._S._K...
#Troilus_2026
Cressida:
At what was all this laughing?
Pandarus:
Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus'
chin.
Cressida:
An't had been a green hair, I should have laughed
too.
(I.2.150-153)
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Cressida:
At what was all this laughing?
Pandarus:
Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus'
chin.
Cressida:
An't had been a green hair, I should have laughed
too.
(I.2.150-153)
1.
January 28, 2026 at 12:45 AM
#Troilus_2026
Cressida:
At what was all this laughing?
Pandarus:
Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus'
chin.
Cressida:
An't had been a green hair, I should have laughed
too.
(I.2.150-153)
1.
Cressida:
At what was all this laughing?
Pandarus:
Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus'
chin.
Cressida:
An't had been a green hair, I should have laughed
too.
(I.2.150-153)
1.
#Troilus_2026
"For it is not the buffo tone that is the most amazing, but its sudden break, or rather its fusion with a most bitter philosophy and passionate poetry."
Jan Kott – Troilus and Cressida: Amazing and Modern, Shakespeare Our Contemporary
"For it is not the buffo tone that is the most amazing, but its sudden break, or rather its fusion with a most bitter philosophy and passionate poetry."
Jan Kott – Troilus and Cressida: Amazing and Modern, Shakespeare Our Contemporary
January 26, 2026 at 11:38 PM
#Troilus_2026
"For it is not the buffo tone that is the most amazing, but its sudden break, or rather its fusion with a most bitter philosophy and passionate poetry."
Jan Kott – Troilus and Cressida: Amazing and Modern, Shakespeare Our Contemporary
"For it is not the buffo tone that is the most amazing, but its sudden break, or rather its fusion with a most bitter philosophy and passionate poetry."
Jan Kott – Troilus and Cressida: Amazing and Modern, Shakespeare Our Contemporary
#Troilus_2026
Troilus:
What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?
Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl:
Between our Ilium and where she resides,
Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,
Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar
Our doubtful hope, our convoy and our bark
(I.1.100-105)
Troilus:
What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?
Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl:
Between our Ilium and where she resides,
Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,
Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar
Our doubtful hope, our convoy and our bark
(I.1.100-105)
January 26, 2026 at 11:19 PM
#Troilus_2026
Troilus:
What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?
Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl:
Between our Ilium and where she resides,
Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,
Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar
Our doubtful hope, our convoy and our bark
(I.1.100-105)
Troilus:
What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?
Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl:
Between our Ilium and where she resides,
Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,
Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar
Our doubtful hope, our convoy and our bark
(I.1.100-105)
#Troilus_2026
"...the textual level of the play poses a serious challenge to the director: the text is Shakespeare’s third longest, its vocabulary and syntax so strenuous at times that the question of the distribution of certain lines remains controversial even today."
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"...the textual level of the play poses a serious challenge to the director: the text is Shakespeare’s third longest, its vocabulary and syntax so strenuous at times that the question of the distribution of certain lines remains controversial even today."
1.
January 26, 2026 at 1:11 AM
#Troilus_2026
"...the textual level of the play poses a serious challenge to the director: the text is Shakespeare’s third longest, its vocabulary and syntax so strenuous at times that the question of the distribution of certain lines remains controversial even today."
1.
"...the textual level of the play poses a serious challenge to the director: the text is Shakespeare’s third longest, its vocabulary and syntax so strenuous at times that the question of the distribution of certain lines remains controversial even today."
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#SundaySarton
"There they were—the Sorbonne where I might have studied, the museums, the libraries, the cemeteries. I stood before them like a cat with one paw raised, unwilling to step into cold water. I did nothing wise or sensible. I simply lived in Paris."
1.
"There they were—the Sorbonne where I might have studied, the museums, the libraries, the cemeteries. I stood before them like a cat with one paw raised, unwilling to step into cold water. I did nothing wise or sensible. I simply lived in Paris."
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January 25, 2026 at 10:25 PM
#SundaySarton
"There they were—the Sorbonne where I might have studied, the museums, the libraries, the cemeteries. I stood before them like a cat with one paw raised, unwilling to step into cold water. I did nothing wise or sensible. I simply lived in Paris."
1.
"There they were—the Sorbonne where I might have studied, the museums, the libraries, the cemeteries. I stood before them like a cat with one paw raised, unwilling to step into cold water. I did nothing wise or sensible. I simply lived in Paris."
1.
#SundaySarton
"...he promised five thousand dollars to be on call as we would need it."
Curious, I checked. Equivalent to about $106,000 in current $
"...he promised five thousand dollars to be on call as we would need it."
Curious, I checked. Equivalent to about $106,000 in current $
January 24, 2026 at 6:09 PM
#SundaySarton
"...he promised five thousand dollars to be on call as we would need it."
Curious, I checked. Equivalent to about $106,000 in current $
"...he promised five thousand dollars to be on call as we would need it."
Curious, I checked. Equivalent to about $106,000 in current $
#SundaySarton
But we, the prehistoric ones, who remember Mrs. Hocking and the genius who succeeded her, will, I trust, be forgiven for secretly thinking, “I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
But we, the prehistoric ones, who remember Mrs. Hocking and the genius who succeeded her, will, I trust, be forgiven for secretly thinking, “I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
January 24, 2026 at 1:31 AM
#SundaySarton
But we, the prehistoric ones, who remember Mrs. Hocking and the genius who succeeded her, will, I trust, be forgiven for secretly thinking, “I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
But we, the prehistoric ones, who remember Mrs. Hocking and the genius who succeeded her, will, I trust, be forgiven for secretly thinking, “I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
#RachelCuskTogether
"The English man is sent away from his mother, and so he wants to marry his mother and perhaps even to be his mother, and while he is usually polite and reasonable to women, as a stranger would be, he doesn't understand what they are."
"The English man is sent away from his mother, and so he wants to marry his mother and perhaps even to be his mother, and while he is usually polite and reasonable to women, as a stranger would be, he doesn't understand what they are."
January 23, 2026 at 2:07 AM
#RachelCuskTogether
"The English man is sent away from his mother, and so he wants to marry his mother and perhaps even to be his mother, and while he is usually polite and reasonable to women, as a stranger would be, he doesn't understand what they are."
"The English man is sent away from his mother, and so he wants to marry his mother and perhaps even to be his mother, and while he is usually polite and reasonable to women, as a stranger would be, he doesn't understand what they are."
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
"...there is a dreadful kind of dreary immortality about being settled down on by one day after another."
...
"...so many ounces of stale bread of life a day..."
Lolly Willowes
"...there is a dreadful kind of dreary immortality about being settled down on by one day after another."
...
"...so many ounces of stale bread of life a day..."
January 22, 2026 at 2:40 AM
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
"...there is a dreadful kind of dreary immortality about being settled down on by one day after another."
...
"...so many ounces of stale bread of life a day..."
Lolly Willowes
"...there is a dreadful kind of dreary immortality about being settled down on by one day after another."
...
"...so many ounces of stale bread of life a day..."
#RachelCuskTogether
'But I don't want my son to learn to be a man,' she said, 'I want him to become one through experience.'
'But I don't want my son to learn to be a man,' she said, 'I want him to become one through experience.'
January 22, 2026 at 2:08 AM
#RachelCuskTogether
'But I don't want my son to learn to be a man,' she said, 'I want him to become one through experience.'
'But I don't want my son to learn to be a man,' she said, 'I want him to become one through experience.'
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
"The Powers of Darkness, then, were no more fearful than a herd of bullocks in a field? Once round upon them and the sniffing encumbering horde made off, a scramble of ungainly rumps and foolish tails."
Lolly Willowes
"The Powers of Darkness, then, were no more fearful than a herd of bullocks in a field? Once round upon them and the sniffing encumbering horde made off, a scramble of ungainly rumps and foolish tails."
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 AM
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
"The Powers of Darkness, then, were no more fearful than a herd of bullocks in a field? Once round upon them and the sniffing encumbering horde made off, a scramble of ungainly rumps and foolish tails."
Lolly Willowes
"The Powers of Darkness, then, were no more fearful than a herd of bullocks in a field? Once round upon them and the sniffing encumbering horde made off, a scramble of ungainly rumps and foolish tails."
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
Of your own cause.
(V.1.184-187)
Duke Vincentio:
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
Of your own cause.
(V.1.184-187)
January 18, 2026 at 1:05 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
Of your own cause.
(V.1.184-187)
Duke Vincentio:
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
Of your own cause.
(V.1.184-187)
#SundaySarton
"She could have had no idea how grave and prescient a gift it would turn out to be, but I, holding it now in my hands forty-eight years later, was moved to find there, on the flyleaf, one of those mysterious links in individual lives that can be seen only by going back in time."
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"She could have had no idea how grave and prescient a gift it would turn out to be, but I, holding it now in my hands forty-eight years later, was moved to find there, on the flyleaf, one of those mysterious links in individual lives that can be seen only by going back in time."
1.
January 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
#SundaySarton
"She could have had no idea how grave and prescient a gift it would turn out to be, but I, holding it now in my hands forty-eight years later, was moved to find there, on the flyleaf, one of those mysterious links in individual lives that can be seen only by going back in time."
1.
"She could have had no idea how grave and prescient a gift it would turn out to be, but I, holding it now in my hands forty-eight years later, was moved to find there, on the flyleaf, one of those mysterious links in individual lives that can be seen only by going back in time."
1.
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
"Strange that anything so small and weak should be the Devil’s Officer, plenipotentiary of such a power. Strange that she should stand trembling and amazed before a little rag-and-bone kitten with absurdly large ears."
1/2
Lolly Willowes
"Strange that anything so small and weak should be the Devil’s Officer, plenipotentiary of such a power. Strange that she should stand trembling and amazed before a little rag-and-bone kitten with absurdly large ears."
1/2
January 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
"Strange that anything so small and weak should be the Devil’s Officer, plenipotentiary of such a power. Strange that she should stand trembling and amazed before a little rag-and-bone kitten with absurdly large ears."
1/2
Lolly Willowes
"Strange that anything so small and weak should be the Devil’s Officer, plenipotentiary of such a power. Strange that she should stand trembling and amazed before a little rag-and-bone kitten with absurdly large ears."
1/2
#NYRBWome26
Lolly Willowes
"He liked it because he was in possession."
"Silence heard them coming, and fled out of the fields..."
"...he was making her miserable in the best of faith."
"Her delusion of freedom had amused them."
Lolly Willowes
"He liked it because he was in possession."
"Silence heard them coming, and fled out of the fields..."
"...he was making her miserable in the best of faith."
"Her delusion of freedom had amused them."
January 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM
#NYRBWome26
Lolly Willowes
"He liked it because he was in possession."
"Silence heard them coming, and fled out of the fields..."
"...he was making her miserable in the best of faith."
"Her delusion of freedom had amused them."
Lolly Willowes
"He liked it because he was in possession."
"Silence heard them coming, and fled out of the fields..."
"...he was making her miserable in the best of faith."
"Her delusion of freedom had amused them."
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
(V.1.10-14)
Duke Vincentio:
O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
(V.1.10-14)
January 17, 2026 at 12:47 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
(V.1.10-14)
Duke Vincentio:
O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
(V.1.10-14)
January 17, 2026 at 12:33 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Pompey:
Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
executed, and sleep afterwards.
(IV.3.30-31)
Pompey:
Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
executed, and sleep afterwards.
(IV.3.30-31)
January 15, 2026 at 2:59 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Pompey:
Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
executed, and sleep afterwards.
(IV.3.30-31)
Pompey:
Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
executed, and sleep afterwards.
(IV.3.30-31)
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Provost:
Here is in our prison a common
executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves;
(IV.2.7-10)
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Provost:
Here is in our prison a common
executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves;
(IV.2.7-10)
1/2
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Provost:
Here is in our prison a common
executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves;
(IV.2.7-10)
1/2
Provost:
Here is in our prison a common
executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves;
(IV.2.7-10)
1/2
#RachelCuskTogether
Day 106
'The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.'
Day 106
'The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.'
January 15, 2026 at 2:15 AM
#RachelCuskTogether
Day 106
'The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.'
Day 106
'The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.'
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes. Catching up on a few days. Here are a few of my favourite lines.
"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies."
"Life becomes simple if one does nothing about it."
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Lolly Willowes. Catching up on a few days. Here are a few of my favourite lines.
"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies."
"Life becomes simple if one does nothing about it."
1.
January 15, 2026 at 12:26 AM
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes. Catching up on a few days. Here are a few of my favourite lines.
"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies."
"Life becomes simple if one does nothing about it."
1.
Lolly Willowes. Catching up on a few days. Here are a few of my favourite lines.
"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies."
"Life becomes simple if one does nothing about it."
1.
#RachelCuskTogether
"If I was interested in metaphors, he said (😂), the serpent's role is merely to create a viewpoint from which Adam's and Eve's weaknesses can be observed, and thus the snake might be representative of anything that triangulates the relationship of two identities..."
"If I was interested in metaphors, he said (😂), the serpent's role is merely to create a viewpoint from which Adam's and Eve's weaknesses can be observed, and thus the snake might be representative of anything that triangulates the relationship of two identities..."
January 12, 2026 at 2:27 AM
#RachelCuskTogether
"If I was interested in metaphors, he said (😂), the serpent's role is merely to create a viewpoint from which Adam's and Eve's weaknesses can be observed, and thus the snake might be representative of anything that triangulates the relationship of two identities..."
"If I was interested in metaphors, he said (😂), the serpent's role is merely to create a viewpoint from which Adam's and Eve's weaknesses can be observed, and thus the snake might be representative of anything that triangulates the relationship of two identities..."
#MeasureForMeasure
Duke Vincentio
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
(IV.1.14-15)
Duke Vincentio
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
(IV.1.14-15)
January 12, 2026 at 12:34 AM
#MeasureForMeasure
Duke Vincentio
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
(IV.1.14-15)
Duke Vincentio
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
(IV.1.14-15)
#NYRBWomen26
"Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations — accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring foot on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact."
"Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations — accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring foot on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact."
January 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
#NYRBWomen26
"Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations — accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring foot on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact."
"Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations — accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring foot on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact."