





(Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852)




They all start out as Juliets and wind up as Lady Macbeths


– Oh wasn’t it Shakespeare who said: “When strangers do meet in far off lands they should ere long see each other again”?
– Shakespeare never said that!

Dostoevsky wrote that menu


















No hurry, no hurry at all











It seems so commercial to think of money at a time like this









