I might as well get on the #Odyssey bandwagon. The enchantress Circe & her [implied] ex-lovers. [Briton Rivière (1896)]. With -pharmaka- drugs, & her staff, she's transformed Odysseus' crew into pigs.🫠 W/ Hermes' help, [& aid of the herb Moly]], Odysseus resists & gets his crew back: Holy Moly!🫣

I pinched myself every day for a wonderful 9 months of enchantment. Wooden beams on ceiling (now concealed. It seems to be an AirB&B😢). Also had roof garden w/ bell tower & 150 potted plants to water by hand.). Thanks for taking me back to Rome & days of lire (b4 latex paint).🥰 [Rollei 35 mm SLR]

That's what I was told from the Lady I sub-letted the flat from. (She had let the flat to another Fulbright scholar the year before. ). The apt. was part of 17th-century Palazzo Pio & had been remodeled in past (Addr Via Grotta Pinta 10, Int. 8; in portico, just where Cavea begins.)

Same thing happened to my apt. Unfortunately, from what I can see in adverts, they modernised it, hiding some details that I found so enchanting: e.g., 2 arches made from 1st century bricks. Still visible: views of rooftops; S. Andrea della Valle from bedroom!

#ShakespeareSunday Caesar: Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. JC I.2 THEME: the Greek & Roman Plays John Gielgud as Cassius in the filmed version.

🤭 *Smirks*

@linda2.bsky.social You inspired me to get out 1 of my own #B&W #Cemetery photos, snapped w/ the camera my father left me (lost, alas, in Rome). @riprap007.bsky.social 19th century child's angel (ca. 1850). [To see full image, if necessary, please click on photo.]

I think it's a goose! In fact, I think it's This One!😼🫠 [He was too quick for me!]😬😵‍💫

Not my📸. Culled late night as best illustration of "hope's swift wings." [It's all I can do to put these togeether w/o losing tweet.] Should have credited: www.reddit.com/search/?q=Mu... Example:My of my bird photography: "One That Got Away!" Taken [a click too late] w/ my iPad (St James's Park).🙄

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. R III, V.2 #ShakespeareSunday Topic: hope @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @riprap007.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social

I had this wonderful illustrated book when I was a little girl! I remember the caption to one of its illustrations: "A look, a kiss, and he was gone."🤗 The 12 dancing princesses was one of my favorite illustrations. The leaves of the trees made me think of emeralds.

#ShakespeareSunday Duke of Exeter: Tennis-balls, my liege. Hen V I.5; Theme: Sports. @lightacandle.bsky.social @tjmiddleton.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social @rosej100.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social @riprap007.bsky.social @mdstamper.bsky.social

I wonder whether the artist of the 13th-century MS illumination had seen and been inspired by the sculpture (although it was a common motif during the mediaeval period. @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @mdstamper.bsky.social I love how one of the Kings has wakened before the others.😊

Henry [Kissing her]: You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate. #ShakespeareSunday Henry V, V.2 @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social @mdstamper.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social @tjmiddleton.bsky.social @riprap007.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social

Interesting to see an actual Etruscan depiction of augury. After watching the shifting columns of starlings swirling skywards, it's easy to see why the Romans believed in it.

I've always wondered whether they're really dwarves or is it artistic convention to depict -servi/ae- as "little people".

I love your watercolor. It has a 'Pompeiian' mood, reminiscent of the 1st century CE sacral-idyllic landscapes, which seem as though they are memories—similar to what a traveller glimpses from the window of a passing train (or a river boat). #art #ancient #Roman #fresco #Pompeii

The moon methinks looks with a watery eye; And when she weeps, weeps every little flower, Lamenting some enforcèd chastity. #ShakespeareSunday MND III.1; Titania @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social @tjmiddleton.bsky.social @tisserand.bsky.social @riprap007.bsky.social

Citofono w/ carnival masks bronze, rusticated concrete early 21st century Castello residents Venezia, Italia #handmade #art #TribalArt #Revival #Sculpture #Castello #Venezia #Venice #italia #Carnival #Pinocchio #21stCentury #SpeakerPhone #Mailbox 😼 @lightacandle.bsky.social

#ShakespeareSunday Lord Capulet on seeing his 'dead' daughter: R&J IV.5: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. @lightacandle.bsky.social @tisserand.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social @tjmiddleton.bsky.social

#ShakespeareSunday; topic: beasts And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline. Oth. I.3 @lightacandle.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social

Viola Make me a willow cabin at your gate,/ & call upon my soul within the house/...Halloo your name to the reverberate hills/ & make the babbling gossip of the air/ Cry out 'Olivia!' TN #ShakespeareSunday Topic: Women. @lightacandle.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social

#ShakespeareSunday Iago: O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on ... Oth III.3 @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social @tjmiddleton.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social @tisserand.bsky.social

Juliet. How oddly thou repliest! 'Your love says, like an honest gentleman, Where is your mother?' Nurse. O God's lady dear! Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow; Is this the poultice for my aching bones? Henceforward do your messages yourself. #ShakespeareSunday Topic: hot/cold

What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. 12thNight II.3 #ShakespeareSunay Topic: Time @lightacandle.bsky.social 1 of 2

In Turkey they live their kitties.

O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black! O night, whichever art when day is not! O night, O night! alack, alack, alack [!] MND V.1 #ShakespeareSunday @lindaholmes.bsky.social @tjmiddleton.bsky.social @riprap007.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social @mdstamper.bsky.social 🧵2/2

Come, gentle night ...Give me my Romeo; &, when he shall die/Take him and cut him out in little stars/And he will make the face of heaven so fine/That all the world will be in love with night. #ShakespeareSunday R&J III.2 Theme: Astronomy @lightacandle.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social 🧵1/2

Her modestly-clad counterpart rests in same courtyard. At 1st, she appears 2B drunken Bacchante w/ serpent coiled around forearm. On deeper level, illustrates closeness between death & sleep [Mors/Morpheus]; & preserves fiction she's not really dead, but merely asleep. #sarcophagusSaturday My 📸. 🏺

... We are such stuff As dreams are' made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. #ShakespeareSunday Tempest IV.1 Theme: new life. @lightacandle.bsky.social @flackjd.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social @tjmiddleton.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social @riprap007.bsky.social