A momentary glimpse of rain
Among my fingers
Then the sense of it
Rushing through me
Past me
Beyond me

In maths, two negatives multiplied together make a positive. In English, the double negative (that is two negations in a sentence)  do not make a positive, contrary to popular belief and English shmexperts.
For instance, the sentence It is not uncommon to find organic food in supermarkets has a different meaning to the sentence It is […]

The literature of stage directions is an interesting, and mostly disregarded, subject. Brecht, the German playwright, was perhaps the only person to make his actors say his stage directions out loud, in many ways to distance (or ‘alienate’) the performers from the play and setting. In all other circumstances, stage directions are a soft or […]

Why did Shakespeare write Shakespeare
If vilia meritur vulgus* is true,
The groundlings who made up his theatre
Would find his language hard to chew.
If wealth were Shakespeare’s ‘lighted shaft’,
As modern historians deduce,
Then nonsense would more hit the mark
Than the brilliance he produced.
But, desiring immortality,
He wrote ‘So long lives this’,
This shows his partiality
Towards eternalness.
So I think both accounts […]