Some questions – some texts – refuse to stay in the past.

I originally wrote this post in 2019 as part of my Shakespeare read-through.

Looking back, I’m struck by how quickly the world has changed, and how I’ve changed too. Whereas I almost casually throw in the line from ‘A Streetcar Named Desire‘ about deliberate cruelty, I would mean it in 2026, when I think the world is crueller in a way I couldn’t have foreseen.

I was reminded that part of literature’s value lies not in giving us answers, but in helping us think more carefully about difficult things.

Old Posts. Still thinking them through.

PTS 014/087: Looking into the Abyss