> I think about time a lot these days, and how relentless and irretrievable it is. I tried to write a poem about it once, but it was a bad idea. I don't like time and I don't like change, and one of the things that I love about reading and writing is that the written word defies both time and change. How clever of Shakespeare to notice this as well.


And to express it so beautifully.
I always get a kind of funny feeling when I read the ones that talk about his love living on in his poetry. That sort of thing often strikes me as cliche. But whenever I read his sonnets I can't help thinking that I'm looking at material proof of his assertion.


> I'm in the process of writing a paper on Greek and Roman drama this very minute (well, okay, not this *very* minute, I'm clearly procrastinating at the moment), so I'll have a lit geek battle with you any time.

Ooooh, ancient drama. That was last quarter for me.

Have you read A.E. Housman's "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy?" You should. It's really good. I've linked it below.

~Chrysanthemum~