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Saturday, 29 April 2023

Page 29


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In pages 27 and 28, we saw Shakespeare fueling his sonnets with his own lifeblood, his youth, his love, his creativity. Here, we see the result: an older, drained Shakespeare who has sacrificed his very essence and implanted it into the sonnet pages that he will send to us, his future readers.

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Saturday, 25 March 2023

Pages 27 and 28


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I'm very excited to present pages 27 and 28 to the public!

Page 27, and its reflection in page 28, represent the points of view of Shakespeare on the left, and the sonnets on the right. These pages illustrate the line "Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel" which describes how Shakespeare feeds his poetry with the ink and creativity that courses through his veins.

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Monday, 27 February 2023

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Pages 27, 28 and 29 (Hi-Res)

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Sunday, 4 December 2022

Pages 20-26 Updated

Pages 20, 21 and 22, 23 and 24, 25 and 26 have all been updated to address inconsistencies in the captioning. If you would still like to see the originals, they're exclusively available to my patrons here: 20 (original and first edit), 21 and 22, 23 and 2425 and 26.

Pages 25 and 26


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These pages were originally posted individually, but as soon as page 26 was completed we realized that their backgrounds didn't match up... so here we go!

Page 25:

Looking into the grave (whether Hamnet's or William's), the grave transforms into the book of sonnets which serves both as the remains and the legacy of the Bard. His legacy has been transported through a wormhole between the biological Shakespeare and his readers by the magic embedded in the pages, much like the rabbit-hole that Alice falls into as we're transported along with her into Wonderland.

The words of the sonnet are Shakespeare's de facto heir that bear his memory.

Where Shakespeare writes "thou", he speaks to us, the readers; we see ourselves reflected by Echo.

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"Contracted to thine own bright eyes" is undoubtedly one of my favorite lines: in its simplest sense, contracted means "obligated to" or "married to", and this describes the "throuple" - or three-way relationship - between Shakespeare, his sonnet reflection, and the reader (Echo, or right at this very moment, you and me). At the same time, however, the sonnets are composed of the ink distilled from Shakespeare's grief, so he himself has been shrunk down into marks on the page.

Marks that have survived to tell their creator's story hundreds of years into the future.

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Monday, 21 November 2022

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Page 26 (Hi-Res)

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Saturday, 1 October 2022

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Page 25 (Hi-Res)

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