Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson

Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson

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Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson
ENTER THE WITCHES

ENTER THE WITCHES

Fire burn and cauldron bubble

Oct 27, 2023
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Will someone help me here. Do words have meaning or don’t they?

These last few terrible weeks I have seen feminists and Me Too revolutionaries cheering on rapists, people who love truth embracing lies, anti-racists celebrating racism and professors of Human Rights applauding violations of the most basic human rights, which is the right to stay alive.

Nothing is but what is not, says Macbeth once the witches have entered his imagination. Have the witches entered ours?

ACT 5 Place: London Time: the present

To read the rest of this post you will, I am afraid, have to climb the paywall. I have been free for several weeks but I have to charge sometimes if I am to go on and not lose my professional self-respect. Your understanding is appreciated.

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