So I'm often plagued by doubts about my studies. Like, what's the purpose of studying literary battles that took place 174 years ago and which have little relevance today unless you're an academic or a student? (It's the nihilist in me, which recognizes that life has no great purpose....) Anyway, it's moments when I read things like the following that I remember why I do this:
"Hamlet, le puritain, l'homme vierge..." = "Hamlet, the puritan, the man-virgin..."
-- the notes on Lorenzaccio in the Pléiade edition of Musset's Théâtre complet
Inscribed RestlessLiterati at 5:35:00 AM
Tags: Lit odds and ends
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you know i think that there are often aspects of the 174 year old texts that are still terribly relevant. i think there are things you can interrogate about (in)visible assumptions texts but even those interrogations give you 'new' knowledge.
and i totally don't get the hamlet thing.
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