Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

Doodle writing, I cracked myself up with this line: "And at the end of every line, Caesura."

Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Jim Carter, Andrew Scott, Jim Broadbent, Karl Johnson, Christopher Eccleston... For months it has been listed on IMDB as "Untitled King Lear Project." The suspense is over... They have finally settled on a title! Wait for it... "KING LEAR"

“I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.”  - Helen Hanff

“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect the shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes. In the version of grief we imagine, the model will be "healing." A certain forward movement will prevail. The worst days will be the earliest days. We imagine that the moment to most severely test us will be the funeral, after which this hypothetical healing will take place. When we anticipate the funeral we wonder about failing to "get through it," rise to the