Letters for Burning
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“ Dear friend,
I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.
”— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower -
“The boy who speaks to himself in Pig Latin / gets nailed in the head again, daydreaming about teaching / the Gibberish girl—the team captain—his native language, / forced to be on a kickball team that is forced to pick him.” — “Dolphin Therapy,” from Pear Noir!, Issue #9 -
New story by Zadie Smith in The New Yorker.
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20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare.
1. Addiction: Othello, Act II, Scene II
2. Arch-villain: Timon of Athens, Act V, Scene I
3. Assassination: Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII
4. Bedazzled: The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene V
5. Belongings: Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene I
6. Cold-blooded: King John, Act III, Scene I
7. Dishearten: Henry V, Act IV, Scene I
8. Eventful: As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII
9. Eyeball: The Tempest, Act I, Scene II
10. Fashionable: Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene III
11. Half-blooded/hot-blooded: King Lear, Act V, Scene III/ Act III, Scene III
12. Inaudible: All’s Well That Ends Well, Act V, Scene III
13. Ladybird: Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene III
14. Manager: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene I
15. Multitudinous: Macbeth, Act II, Scene II
16. New-fangled: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I, Scene I
17. Pageantry: Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act V, Scene II
18. Scuffle: Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene I
19. Swagger: Henry V, Act II, Scene IV/A Midsummer Night’s
20. Uncomfortable: Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V -
“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.” — Anaïs Nin
