Category: Musings

  • The Shortest of Short Stories

    The Shortest of Short Stories

    I weep when contemporary culture applies without rebuke the aphorism, “A picture is worth a thousand words” to Literature. I understand the history of the sentiment, but could any number of pictures truly capture the personal journey we each go through when we read Shakespeare’s twenty-six-thousand-word, Romeo and Juliet? Could thirty pictures take even one person Read more