John reads William Shakespeare's Sonnet 129, "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame." He also discusses orgasmic poetry, Texas stupidity, Euripides, Dionysus, and a great Norm MacDonald joke.
Thank you, my friend! I was just thinking...this episode is the most like my old teaching! A bit of scattershot that, hopefully, hits its target at the end. It's a great poem.
Good segment John. From Norm McDonald to William Shakespeare. I'm going to be studying Sonnet 129 now. I don't recall reading it back at UCLA in 1982!
Thank you, my friend! I was just thinking...this episode is the most like my old teaching! A bit of scattershot that, hopefully, hits its target at the end. It's a great poem.