Thank you Virginia Woolf for Rattigan Glumphoboo and inspiring me to go straight to my blog and post “whenever anything popped violently” into my head. Just finished a class on Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” and this rose up:
“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide. In cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked ‘twixt son and father. . . . the King falls from bias of nature, there’s father against child. We have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves.”
my first thought was – Yikes. Very dark.
I think the political situation has got me leaning to the dark, and not enough effort given to escaping to the light and sunny. Here goes: I will laugh when occupying Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada is strongly vetoed. My old age saved.