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Candida
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At the tip of the love triangle, Candida is torn between Marchbanks’ poetic affections and her husband’s somewhat naïve intellectualism. All are richly drawn portraits, expressing themselves eloquently and with sharp wit. To brutally paraphrase a quote I can’t find anymore: when Shaw’s plays were criticised for being “all talk”, he replied, “yes and a Rembrandt is all paint.” And it is exactly so, several lines of argument weave a tapestry of human emotion.
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February 7, 2024
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February 7, 2024
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February 7, 2024
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"PROSERPINE (staring at him). Relatives of YOURS!
MORELL. Yes: we have the same father—in Heaven.
PROSERPINE (relieved). Oh, is that all?"
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MORELL. Yes: we have the same father—in Heaven.
PROSERPINE (relieved). Oh, is that all?"
February 7, 2024
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18.92%
"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about?"
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February 7, 2024
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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it"
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Feb 07, 2024 02:13AM
Did I make up that it’s Rembrandt because of nationalistic pride? Maybe…
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You know what this is the kind of academic misconduct that is ruining universities . Ok suuure it’s a phenomenal quote and maybe it makes your point beautifully buuut it might equally have been Michelangelo , and then how would your neat fake quote work ! (Also how are you coping with the inevitable moment you run out of audible plays )
I’m pretty sure the other part is “and Beethoven just noise” but I know so little about classical music that I’d look a complete philistine
And yes academically misconducting myself from now on… citations shouldn’t take up hours upon hours of valuable time slagging off depressed right wing communists
Hahah I’m actually so interested in this man
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