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Shakespeare! Shakespeare! My head is all Shakespeare, working on The Merchant of Venice is turning my brain to thoughts of Venice and Venetian justice or what they think it is ;)

I'll be glad once this assignment is over, Merchant of Venice hasn't ever been my favourite of the comedies.

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[aflowerofblood]

I read 'turning my thoughts to doughnuts' which must mean I'm hungry...

Do you know what we're studying next?

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Utterly no idea offhand, but it should be on the coursebooks on the uni website at a guess!

Doughnuts are good thoughts too! Good, wicked thoughts..

[aflowerofblood]

Effort! Man, being a student is so much easier when you're lazy...

I might make some!

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Make them? Surely that requires effort too?

I'd just go to the bakery. Yum :D

[comedesirenight]

Merchant of Venice is killing me, I swear.

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Ah, he'd rather take a pound of flesh than kill you, even though taking it would probably kill you ;)

[comedesirenight]

So long as he takes the pound from my brain and the section filled with this play I'm okay with that. Have I mentioned how much I don't like it?

Dinner and academic bitchfest?

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I like about one scene, Portia is pretty badass with the fooling her lover into betraying her ;)

Of course!

[somnambulal]

What's the Merchant of Venice about?

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It's a bit convoluted, but that's Shakespeare, and it's about a man named Bassanio who's in love with a rich woman named Portia. His friend, Antonio, borrows money from a jewish man named Shylock and gives some to Bassanio so he can woo Portia but Antonio puts the rest of the money to ships and they all sink so he can't pay it back. And because Shylock hates him, he demands not his money but a pound of flesh, and Portia dresses as a man to pretend to be a lawyer and save her love's best friend. That's the most of it, I suppose, but it's being used in a social commentary context for my essays, about the law and division of religions and so on.

Are you alright, sweetheart?

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Sounds confusing. I never really got Shakespeare.

I'm alright. Will you come help me make dinner? I don't want to mess it up.