The Greatest Obstacle To Pleasure Is Not

But If Shakespeare Himself Is Maybe About Meaning And Truth, I Don't Know, Then He Is Certainly About Pleasure And Interest, We Start With Pleasure And Interest, But Maybe Eventually It Gets To Meaning And Truth.

The Shakespeare That Shakespeare Became Is The Name That's Attached To These Astonishing Objects That He Left Behind.

I Was In Venice Teaching, So I Reread Henry James's "the Wings Of The Dove." I Love James.

The First And Perhaps The Most Important Requirement For A Successful Writing Performance - And Writing Is A Performance, Like Singing An Aria Or Dancing A Jig - Is To Understand The Nature Of The Occasion.

A Comparably Capacious Embrace Of Beauty And Pleasure - An Embrace That Somehow Extends To Death As Well As Life, To Dissolution As Well As Creation - Characterizes Montaigne's Restless Reflections On Matter In Motion, Cervantes's Chronicle Of His Mad Knight, Michelangelo's Depiction Of Flayed Skin, Leonardo's Sketches Of Whirlpools, Caravaggio's Loving Attention To The Dirty Soles Of Christ's Feet.