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yeah-thats-probably-it · 4 months

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say what you like about having your vocabulary ruined by bertie wooster but at least whenever I'm indecisive from now on I'll always be able to say that I'm letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would' and make everyone think I'm cultured

#that and 'like quills upon the fretful porpentine'#live in my head rent free #i DID read macbeth in school but wouldn't have remembered that line #tbf i hope one day to be able to understand shakespeare plays #my j&w brainrot is so bad rn that i got the complete works on audible #started a midsummer night's dream #couldn't really follow it #bought an annotated copy but haven't got into it yet #people who are really into shakespeare say you have to see it performed bc just reading won't do the trick #but my auditory processing is real bad and combine that with the fact that the language is so different #it's a bit dense for me (or maybe i'm a bit dense for it)#also i can't find a filmed production #anyway um #jeeves and wooster #jeeves books #that's where this post started yeah i remember now #i did NOT read hamlet in school and there's always been a feeling hanging over me that i really should #you're SUPPOSED to have read hamlet even if only under duress #universal high school experience reading hamlet and not appreciating it it seems

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