Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13/10/2026#Othello2026 Iago: For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am. (I.1.64-68) 141
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 · 24/09/2026#TheShrew2026 Joseph Arkley as Katherine and Claire Price as Petrucia in the 2019 production. 131
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 · 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 · 22/08/2026#ForsyteSaga26 I haven't had the chance to watch The Cherry Orchard yet, but I did acquire these two additions to my library. The plays in ebook format. 240
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 27/07/2026#MidsummerND2026 Bottom: I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called "Bottom's Dream" because it hath no bottom. (IV.1.215-217) 051
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 20/07/2026#midsummernd2026 Quince: Well. We will have such a prologue, and it shall be written in eight and six. Bottom: No, make it two more. Let it be written in eight and eight. (III.1.21-24) 031
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 20/07/2026#midsummernd2026 Snout: O Bottom, thou art changed! What do I see on thee? Bottom: What do you see? You see an ass head of your own, do you? (III.1.107-109) 030
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 17/07/2026#midsummernd2026 Fairy: Those that “Hobgoblin” call you, and “sweet Puck,” You do their work, and they shall have good luck. Are not you he? (II.1.40-42) 030
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 30/06/2026#BalzacTogether "The old landlady had the tragic air of Marius among the ruins of Carthage." 192
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 30/06/2026#AsYou2026 Jacques: Let’s present him to the duke like a Roman conqueror. And it would do well to set the deer’s horns upon his head for a branch of victory.—Have you no song, forester, for this purpose? (IV.2.3-6) *Finally caught up* 141
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Tattoo Day. Short day. Finished the left arm and added some shading. 000
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13/06/2026All my life, I've imagined The Muffin Man as selling muffins, North American sweet muffins, like a blueberry muffin. But this makes more sense. Dammit! 120
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 12/06/2026#AsYou2026 Orlando: Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother. (I.2.273-274) When Antony becomes Duke Frederick, one day to the next. 140
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 05/06/2026#AntonyandCleo_2026 I couldn't resist picking this up from the local school fundraiser book sale. 170
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 04/06/2026#AntonyandCleo_2026 Cleopatra: Rather a ditch in Egypt Be gentle grave unto me. Rather on Nilus’ mud Lay me stark naked and let the waterflies Blow me into abhorring. Rather make My country’s high pyramides my gibbet And hang me up in chains! (V.2.67-72) 051
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I've been having a little fun imagining the chapter as a Twilight Zone Episode. “Observe young Jolyon: a man who thought himself outside the Forsytean labyrinth, only to find himself lured back into its dark, narrow tunnels.” 130
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 19/05/2026#AntonyandCleo_2026 Agrippa: Who, queasy with his insolence already, Will their good thoughts call from him. (III.6.22-23) 050
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 16/04/2026#SundaySarton Journal of a Solitude Finis "There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business." 160
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Library secondhand shop. $3 In case... #Balzac_2026 240
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 07/04/2026#Hamlet_2026 Polonius: The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited. (II.2.401-405) 050
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 05/04/2026#Hamlet_2026 Hamlet: Words, words, words (II.1.205) Maybe my favourite line in my favourite play. 292
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 04/04/2026#Hamlet_2026 Polonius: Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad. (II.2.95-97) [My favourite version of Hamlet is the 2009 film version with David Tennant as Hamlet and Oliver Ford Davies as Polonius.] 270
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 03/04/2026#Hamlet_2026 Polonius: This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion under heaven (II.1.111-114) [Critically panned, but I liked the Ethan Hawke 2000 film production.] 040
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 02/04/2026#Hamlet_2026 Hamlet: But come, Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, How strange or odd soe’er I bear myself (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on), That you, at such times seeing me, never shall... ...to note That you know aught of me (I.5.185-197) 030
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 01/04/2026#Hamlet_2026 Hamlet: Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life in a pin’s fee, And for my soul—what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? (I.4.70-73) 050
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 31/03/2026 #Hamlet_2026 Polonius: Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. (I.3.66-69) 050
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 30/03/2026#Hamlet_2026 Hamlet: My father’s brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! (I.2.155-160) 050
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 15/03/2026#AllsWell_2026 Diana: My mother told me just how he would woo, As if she sat in 's heart; she says all men Have the like oaths (IV.2.81-83) 041
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 12/03/2026#AllsWell_2026 First Lord: O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum; he says he has a stratagem for't: when your lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be melted, 062
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 10/03/2026#SatantangoTogether Irimias reminds me of other gaudy fictional villains and tricksters. 160
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I was thinking about him, too. I just borrowed this from the library a few days ago. I haven't got into it yet. 110
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I'm starting this today. @emilyraustin.bsky.social 020
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 01/03/2026#SatantangoTogether "The trees were leaning with the wind, their bare branches describing threatening arcs in the air. He thought of their roots, the life-giving sap, of the soaked earth and of the silence, of the unspoken feeling of completion he so dreaded." 291
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 01/03/2026#AllsWell_2026 Lafeu: O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if My royal fox could reach them: (II.1.79-81) 040
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 27/02/2026#AllsWell_2026 Clown: Was this fair face the cause, quoth she, Why the Grecians sacked Troy? Fond done, done fond, Was this King Priam's joy? 151
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 24/02/2026#AllsWell_2026 Helena: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (I.1.218-221) 052
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 21/02/2026#SundaySarton "I am, I think, more of a poet than I was before I knew him (Albert "Quig" Quigley), if to be a poet means allowing life to flow through one rather than forcing it to a mold the will has shaped; if it means learning to let the day shape the work, not the work, the day..." 010
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I had to dig deep in my bookshelves, but I'm ready @christina500.bsky.social 160
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13/02/2026#Troilus_2026 Aeneas: In the extremity of great and little, Valour and pride excel themselves in Hector; The one almost as infinite as all, The other blank as nothing. Weigh him well, And that which looks like pride is courtesy. (IV.5.94-98) 150
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 07/02/2026#Troilus_2026 Ulysses: O heavens, what some men do, While some men leave to do! How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall, Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes! 042
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 05/02/2026#SundaySarton Plant Dreaming Deep - May Sarton "My friends realized that my whole relation to the place was a little like that of an old maid who suddenly gets married." 051
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 05/02/2026#Troilus_2026 Helen: Let thy song be love: this love will undo us all. O Cupid, Cupid, Cupid! (III.1.105) ... Pandarus: Is this the generation of love? hot blood, hot thoughts, and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers: is love a generation of vipers? (III.1.128-130) 051
Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 30/01/2026#Troilus_2026 Ulysses: The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns The sinew and the forehand of our host, Having his ear full of his airy fame, Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent Lies mocking our designs (I.3.145-149) 030
