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Jun 21, 2021Liked by John McGee, PhD

Just excellent! I am really enjoying the fact each of your weekly articles have been meaty, yet pithy, a hard balance to pull off. All this while honouring your reader as capable of comprehension, by not serving your themes up like baby food, rather giving us an opportunity to chew! Just excellent!

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What is the birdsong mix up? It is also a fascinating move to start a story/play clearly starting the outcome....hmmmm?

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Apr 3, 2022·edited Apr 3, 2022

Good points and great quote - I've cribbed it. So, S-speare didn't know the Italian versions; right, that makes sense. I need to read Brookes. Yeah, so: if Juliet is "driving the relationship", hurriedly and dangerously...why is she? I say it's to get away from the "fiery destruction" of the blood violence - with Romeo; he is her ticket out. He dies, she's stuck, she would rather die.

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