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TonyP173's avatar

Max, that was fabulous. It's difficult for me to make a lucid comment, when you are operating on such a high literary plane. While I had the benefit of liberal exposure to Shakespeare at Brophy, and ASU, none of the instructors were your intellectual equal or had your talent for communication.

It certainly was a bold choice to use Shakespeare's works and philosophy as a way to resolve the issues you saw in the reader reactions to Joseph Heller's novel. IMHO, you nailed it.

I especially enjoyed your use of the video, highlighting the instructions to the actors from Hamlet. It was very effective.

I saw Hamlet at Grady Gammage Auditorium back in the mid 60s. I've never seen King Lear. I'm far more familiar with Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Midsummer's Night Dream.

At no time, during my life would I have seen the connection to the biblical reference of Abraham's interaction with God, regarding Sodom. Of course, your inspired explanation of King Lear, and your unique knowledge of the Bard, makes the connection seem almost obvious.

I wonder, Max, if Abraham were alive today, and God was contemplating the members of the democrat caucus in Congress, how the negotiation would transpire. I have no doubt that the dems might suffer the same fate as Sodom and Gamorrah.

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Tim Hurlocker's avatar

"Social Justice" is an oxymoron that incites the howling mob, like in today's South Africa and Minneapolis, or Revolutionary France and Bolshevik Russia.

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