Maggie's Farm

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

WS, Richard II

I wasn't able to join Mrs. BD and friends to hear the great Yale and NYU Prof Harold Bloom talk about Shakespeare Monday night at the Classic Stage Company (a theater company she loves and supports) just off Union Square.

She reported a few random things Bloom said, paraphrased:

"Lear is Shakespeare's greatest work. I don't know how a human could have written it."

"I am not a Shakespeare scholar. I give no credence to any Shakespeare scholar."

"Shakespeare used a 22,000 word vocabulary in his writing. No other writer has ever come close to that. And he probably invented 1000 words, many of them now part of ordinary English."

"He wrote Othello, Macbeth, and Lear within 14 months. How could that be done?"

"He may have died of Syphilis."

Mrs. and Co. had supper at the Blue Water Grill. With the Union Square Cafe, The Gotham Bar and Grill,  the Blue Water Grill, and Toqueville (which my daughter loves), Union Square has come a long way since I sort-of lived on University Place. Back then, the cops would stop by to pull dead guys out of the bushes in the morning. ODs, mostly.

Now it has a dog park and an open air bar with live music, and I guess most of the old addicts and drunks are dead.