Work stuff mostly

[altivo]

Wednesday AND the first day back at work after a long weekend. Ugh.

Interesting things, more or less: The golden chalice is still here but no one remembered to put it out in the display case so it spent the whole day locked up. No one asked where it was either, so the novelty has worn off and it should go home to Wisconsin I think. More promising bits of information about the potential split in the library system. The key library that we need on our side is indeed on our side, or at least the director and staff are. They still need board approval though. Word has been passed to the system HQ that we are seriously considering dropping out. Supposedly the big pointy haired boss responded that he "Just couldn't understand why anyone would do that," which fits and in fact explains exactly why we would do it. He's been about as aware, understanding, and awake as a two ton boulder. Oh, and my Wednesday night work colleague of the past 4+ years has changed her schedule and will no longer be working with me. For the forseeable future the library director is taking her place, which might not sound good, but actually it is fine with me.

Put up a 2001 calendar at work (Mark Barrett's Horse calendar) since the one I wanted is back ordered from Amazon and may never show up.

Listening to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on my drive to and from work. I had forgotten that there's a male-male love expression in Act 2. Yay, Will, for letting Antonio declare his love for Sebastian in no uncertain terms. Unlike the confusion involving Sebastian's sister Viola (who is impersonating a male eunuch but falls in love with her master, Orsino, who believes she is male, and endures in turn being loved by Orsino's love object, Olivia, who also believes she is male) there can be no question but what Antonio is perfectly aware of Sebastian's gender and yet expresses his obvious ardor openly.

Now, I think, to bed with me.

Comments

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Supposedly the big pointy haired boss responded that he "Just couldn't understand why anyone would do that"...
Someone needs to be struck with a really big clue-bat, I think.

[dongstyle-ltd.livejournal.com]

Haha, Scott Adams would be proud. Well, maybe not proud...

It seems there is fairly vivid discussion over the nature of the relationship between playboy Bassiano and ill-fated (and unrequited?) merchant Antonio in The Merchant of Venice. What think you?

Now we gotta see if one can work in a gender reading on the powerplay in Antony and Cleopatra...

[calydor.livejournal.com]

QUITE appropriate comic strip:

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[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Even a two tonne boulders get broken up in a quarry and shipped off to be used as solid foundations somewhere XD

Well Shakespeare did get about a bit ;) Being an actor/writer type its just about guaranteed ;) *giggles*

To bed with you, I've put some fresh straw in there.

[shadowhwk.livejournal.com]

While there is, yes, a whole -pile- of sexual innuendo in Shakespeare that a lot of people really don't get, I don't particularly see any blatant romantic love expressed between Antonio and Sebastian in Twelfth Night.

In Act Two, Sebastian says: It were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.

Because he is planning to leave Antonio's company and go looking for his sister, after Antonio saved him. He then apologizes to Antonio for being a burden.

Seb: O good Antonio! forgive me your trouble

to which Antonio says

Ant: If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant.

They part ways. Antonio says

I have many enemies in Orsino's court,
Else would I very shortly see thee there;
But, come what may, I do adore thee so,
That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.

That's not, to my reading, an expression of romantic love. It's definitely an expression of loyalty, companionship, deep friendship, but I don't see the romantic.

I have not looked at The Merchant of Venice for a while, so I can't immediately comment to Bassanio and Antonio.

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

Ah, Twelfth Night, I remember reading that for a literature class not too long ago. My professor pointed out the homosexual relationship and I think she said that it is speculated that Shakespeare was bisexual. I don't know if that has ever been confirmed or not.