Classicism Gifts

Roman sculptor murdered by his sculpture

Gavrila Derzhavin

"The End of Classicism as we know it."

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

Herman Mankiewicz

Reading my Critics

Rich man vomiting euros to a beggar.

Venus

"And on the eighth day, God sat back with a scotch and soda and waited for the critical reviews."

"There's only one 'L' in colosseum."

'Where was the TSA?'

Archimedes statue with a lever

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Playdough's The Republic

"You'd think he hated music by the way he tortures it."

"VP J.D. Vance called Donald: 'cynical asshole,' a 'moral disaster,' a 'total fraud,' an 'idiot,' and suggested he might be 'America’s Hitler.'"

Man: 'How cute. He must like the movement.' Cat: 'There are some challenging themes here but little or no dramatic resonance.'

"I think someone's trying to play games with us."

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

A surprise in heaven

"Never mind, Harry. Just remember, the 'Saturday Review' loved it."

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

'Why can't we just kick Caesar upstairs?'

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."

"I miss the Augean stables."

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

'The classic masks of Comedy and Tragedy, or as they're now known, emoticons.'

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

Tragedy/Schadenfreude

"Did you read my review on Amazon? Four out of four people found it helpful."

'Caesar salad?'