Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 21h#Brontefest "I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste." 040
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#Brontefest "This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear; very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible." "Superstition was with me at that moment; but it was not yet her hour for complete victory." So good! 172
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Tranio: Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master, That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue. (IV.2.62-64) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-...en.wikipedia.orgThirty-one (card game) - Wikipedia 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#Brontefest "I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him that would presently deal it." "...he was not quick either of vision or conception..." 😂 050
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#Brontefest "Mr Miles...affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent from home; but the mother's heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and inclined rather to the more refined idea that John's sallowness was owing to over-application..." Horrifying and funny 150
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Grumio: But thou knowest winter tames man, woman and beast (IV.1.19-20) --- Curtis: By this reck'ning he is more shrew than she. (IV.1.74) Curtis, Grumio and the crew. 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 26/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Baptista: First were we sad, fearing you would not come, Now sadder that you come so unprovided. Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate, An eyesore to our solemn festival. (III.2.96-99) 040
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#Brontefest "...the novel's language is richly allusive and self-consciously literary. The range of textual allusions is prodigious: Jane Eyre is one of the most densely allusive and intertextual works of the nineteenth century." Dr. Stevie Davies - Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition 151
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Petruchio: O, you are novices! 'Tis a world to see, How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. (II.1.322-324) 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Baptista: When did she cross thee with a bitter word? Katherine: Her silence flouts me, and I’ll be revenged. (II.2.29-30) 040
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "Stars winked at one another, conveying entire poems in Morse code to local residents but remaining undeciphered." 071
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#Brontefest #CharlotteBrontë Jane Eyre Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition - Dr. Stevie Davies 172
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The anxiety expressed by the conservative press about the novel's demands for personal freedom, its assertions of famished hunger, not only physical, but also intellectual and emotional, and its disputatious protagonist's serial defiance of authority, was a response by an elite under threat. 030
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "Just like in the hospital wards, where bodies are simply bodies, a form of existence and empathy, a conversation without a conversation." 051
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "By condemning the bodies of strangers, they consoled their own bodies." "Seeing the bodies of others means seeing one's own as it actually is." 052
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Grumio: Why, give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby, or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two-and-fifty horses. (The 2019 RSC production swaps genders. "Petruchia" is the suitor, here with Grumio) 040
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "...this was my pain, my narrative, which I didn't want to share with anyone." 051
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "Years passed and his rage strengthened like fine cognac and hardened like the bark of an old tree..." 061
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Gremio: I cannot tell. But I had as lief take her dowry with this condition: to be whipped at the high cross every morning. (I.1.133-135) 030
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "...the tongue is a muscle not unlike a pagan dancing around a campfire." 161
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "...conversation was filtered through a fine screen that held back the most important, large, brave, lavish, and truthful words." (I love the choice of the word 'lavish' in this sentence.) 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Katherine: I pray you, sir, is it your will To make a stale of me amongst these mates? (I.1.57-58) 030
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "Children became more than their own childish bodies..." "...life adds all kinds of people into its soup, tossing in spices without asking who likes what." (I love this line.) 042
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Sly: Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now? I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak. I smell sweet savors and I feel soft things. (Induction.2.68-70) 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "...the teacher's face crumpled like the quizzes we tossed in the wastebasket." The similes in this book are 💯 293
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "All the words that were ever said to her had turned into huge, dry stones." "My body forgives no misdeeds. The only thing it can easily forget is pain." 053
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 15/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Lord: What think you: if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself? (Induction.1.34-38) 040
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 15/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "All day long, the sound of her sewing machine, its pedal rhythmically hitting the floor, emerged from behind the closed door of her room." I found this chapter to be sad and beautiful. Women were silenced, constrained and diminished by the social order, but... 1. 173
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 14/09/2026#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Hair "Outside the car window, the vast, expansive wintry steppe was as uniform as a sleeping woman's calm breath." 173
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 14/09/2026#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Hair "...daughters were merely temporary inhabitants of the home and were nurtured for other families..." 194
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 "...space had been ripped to pieces like an unsent love letter..." 161
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 "They now lie alongside one another: his mean, cold eyes tensely track every passerby as she looks lovingly at the little gate, awaiting her children, who are her main consolation and her only joy." 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 "Unlike my girlfriends and others around me, however, my glasses - like books - never betrayed me." 1104
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 12/09/2026#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody Chapter 1 - Eyebrows "...I realized that eyebrows are comparable to life experience and cannot be identical. There is always something in them from the woman they belong to." 184
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 11/09/2026#TheMerchant2026 Portia: Even so void is your false heart of truth. (V.1.202) 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 10/09/2026#ForsyteSaga26 Softened by the events of the past week, affected by the melancholy beauty of the autumn day, Soames came nearer than he had ever been to realisation of that truth—passing the understanding of a Forsyte pure— 1/2 161
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 10/09/2026#TheMerchant2026 Lorenzo: Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. (V.1.87-90) 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 10/09/2026#ForsyteSaga26 No doubt she was in a reckless mood, and she was young, absurdly young. But if he opposed her, he didn't know what she would do; for all he could tell she might want to take up a profession, become a doctor or solicitor, some nonsense. 030
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 10/09/2026#ForsyteSaga26 "Jon's in British Columbia, Val, because he wants to be in California. He thinks it's too nice there." "Oh!" said Val, "so he's beginning to see a joke again." 031
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 07/09/2026#TheMerchant2026 Gratiano: In christening shalt thou have two godfathers. Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more— To bring thee to the gallows, not to the font. (IV.1.420-422) 030
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#Forsytesaga26 ...he, legal ownership, personified, meeting lawless beauty, incarnate. 071
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#SundaySarton After the Stroke "...and there in my bed alone the past rises like a tide, over and over, to swamp me with memories I cannot handle. I am as fragile and naked as a newborn babe." 020
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#Forsytesaga26 Even his love felt tainted, less illusioned, more of the earth, and with a treacherous lurking doubt lest Fleur, like her father, might want to own; not articulate, just a stealing haunt, horribly unworthy, which crept in and about the ardour of his memories... 040
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#TheMerchant2026 Bassanio: Yea, twice the sum. If that will not suffice, I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth.— (IV.1.218-222) 030
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 04/09/2026#themerchant2026 Antonio: You may as well go stand upon the beach And bid the main flood bate his usual height. You may as well use question with the wolf Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb. (IV.1.73-76) 031
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 04/09/2026#Forsytesaga26 Fleur: "She wished and wished for the moon, which sailed in cold skies above the river or the Green Park when she went to Town." "The tenacity which had at once made and undone Soames was her backbone, too, frilled and embroidered by French grace and quickness." 161
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 03/09/2026#Forsytesaga26 That quick-blooded sentiment hatred had run its course long since in Soames' heart, and he had refused to allow any recrudescence, but he considered this early decease a piece of poetic justice. 261
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 31/08/2026#TheMerchant2026 Portia: For never shall you lie by Portia’s side With an unquiet soul. (III.2.327-328) 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 28/08/2026#TheMerchant2026 Shylock: The villainy you teach me I will execute—and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (III.1.64-66) 041
