Well shit.

I had written a witty but pleasantly brief entry to resuscitate this blog. While the subject was perhaps not exiting, and the reanimation of this site for me has been a success, sadly that particular post was DOA. Cause of death? The Internet ate it. No shit. While reading it aloud to my Mumsy in the Preview screen, I noted a small grammatical mistake. I hit the 'back' key in order to correct it. BIG MISTAKE. So. I sit here, and rather than attempting to recreate the sad loss of that entry, I simply will have to put together a smaller and less exiting one which will be constantly compared to the deceased entry. Because tropes are fun, the lost entry will grow in our hearts and minds until no feat of skill or heroic act by this one will ever truly match it (despite the fact that it was never that good in the first place) and this entry too will likely die a sad and understated death due to lack of readers.
Speaking of death, recently my Great Aunt died. I wrestled with myself a great deal about if I aught to put an uppercase "Evil" in front of that title. Generally fond of epithets but not actually one to speak ill of the dead(ish), I decided to add this explanation. In life she had good qualities, I'm sure. I just don't know what many of them are, primarily because any action on her part often ended relationships, either by her disowning another member of my family or by their refusal to ever speak to her again. Having met her relatively few times over the coarse of my life, I really can only operate on this evidence, which, obviously, has not been good.
What earthly reason could this be relevant in a blog which professes to have the focus of literature, you may ask. Well.
It turns out among the possessions she left behind, I was bequeathed a set of volumes. Beautiful little (each no longer than my hand) red volumes. Of Shakespeare. Which were published (no joke) in 1909. This actually took some work to find out, because they are old enough that not only was the copyright information in a slightly different place than I expected to look, but all notable numeric information was written in roman numerals. Hot. Damn. Hot, squishy, flying DAMN!!
For any who know me well, this windfall will be accompanied with raised eyebrows and a general understanding of the whirlwind of emotions currently at war within me. Firstly I do admit I feel some guilt at gaining so much (in my eyes) from the death of another person. I do guilt very, very well having been raised Catholic on one side and Jewish on the other. Woof. This emotion, I have to admit, was overridden quickly by excitement and avarice at the thought of gaining another (Yes. Another. Not including this I actually have two of Willy's complete works. I'm not crazy... there are real reasons. I swear.) set of the bastardly Bard's works. This was followed immediately with a touch more guilt and then a desperate attempt to stem the flood of little exited squeaks that seemed to be leaking from me as I examined my lovely little books.
You see, I have a deep love-hate relationship with dear old Willy. Midsummer Night's Dream was the first bit of high literature I ever encountered, and although on occasion I'd like to exhume Bill and kick him in the genitals, I have such a deep and abiding love for his wordplay that I can do naught but hoard what I can. Demonstrated by the multiple copies I posses. One was a gift from my Stinky Man Thing. Generally Disgruntled, he really has got some lovely qualities (not the least of which, apparently, is sexcellent taste in books) he bought a copy that I had been lusting after and gave it to me. Leather bound and gold-leaf edged, it adorns my shelf and for the most part receives much gentler treatment than my other copy which was the text I ported to and from my Early and Later Shakespeare classes at university. With reams of notes on nearly every page and likely enough highlighter ink to drown a small child, I feel no shame in keeping one copy safe from my less than tender care.
In any case, I digress. The time for this post to meet its end has drawn near and I must away to fondle my lovely new books. I look forward to returning here (before the year is out) to enjoy my own inner monologue turned text.