So the text of Hamlet is here: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html This is during Act 2, Scene 5. Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus are running around swearing on the sword multiple times. I find this scene extremely confusing. Watching the scene during the 1996 Kenneth Branagh version, it's ...

Background The first two times that the death of David Webb's (later Jason Bourne) family is exposited, there is some attention drawn to how no one officially knows which side the plane was on. "... By the time he reached the river the dock was blown away, his wife and children floating in the w...

This is a quote from "The Great Wall of China" by Franz Kafka. What's the difference between "emperor" and "living emperor"? Our land is so huge, that no fairy tale can adequately deal with its size. Heaven hardly covers it all. And Peking is only a point, the imperial palace only a tiny dot. It...