A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
Litsketches where authors, characters, and classics get a modern literary makeover. Satirical, insightful takes on poetry, novels, and literary legends. Where authors, poems, and literary classics get the ABS treatment—sharp, bold, and never boring. Dive into scrolls on Shakespeare, Plath, Dickens, Austen, and more, with wit as your bookmark.
A Comedy Where Gossip Does the Sword Work and Love Trips Over Its Own Feet Welcome to Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s festival of misunderstandings, accidental villainy, accidental romance, and accidental intelligence. This is the play where people fall in love by arguing, fall apart because someone coughed suspiciously in the bushes, and repair everything […]
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A Forest, A Banished Duke, A Lovesick Poet, And Enough Disguises To Confuse The Gods Welcome to As You Like It, Shakespeare’s backyard picnic of chaos where everyone escapes into the Forest of Arden, believing trees can fix emotional damage. This is the play where love happens with reckless speed, disguises multiply like rabbits, and
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KING LEAR: HOW TO LOSE A KINGDOM AND YOUR SANITY IN FIVE EASY ACTS “Nothing will come of nothing.”Thus spoke a king who had everything — except common sense. At the ripe old age of eighty (or as modern HR departments might call it, “past retirement with extreme prejudice”), King Lear decided it was high
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A Satirical Journey Through Ancient Pride and Modern Vanity What ABS Believes Satire walks into a room quietly but exposes everything loudly. Jonathan Swift did not approach intellectual quarrels the way timid scholars did. He walked straight toward them with the confidence of a man who knew he was about to expose everyone. When he
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Reimagined, Retold, and Ruthlessly Roasted Where We Politely Step Into the 18th Century and Immediately Regret It Picture London in the early 1700s.Everyone smells like rosewater, ego, and inherited entitlement. Tea has replaced oxygen. Coffee houses pretend to be intellectual hubs while hosting men who believe Latin is a seasoning. Women are expected to flutter,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: When the Soul Poses for a Portrait There are sins that roar and sins that whisper. Dorian Gray’s whispered beautifully. He began as a sketch of innocence, admired, adored, and almost unreal. By the time the canvas caught its final shade, innocence had become memory, and beauty had learned to
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Reflections on the Inner Light That Guides Us Through a Complicated World “When the world gives no map, follow the compass within.” Export to Sheets The Moral Compass: Guiding Principles of Life Life, as we know it, rarely comes with a manual. There’s no single rulebook, no flashing signboards to tell us when we are
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Prosody: The Music of Poetry — from classical meters and rhyme schemes to the liberated rhythms of modern verse. From The Professor’s Desk An Invitation into the Sound, Structure, and Subtle Science of Prosody When Language Learns to Dance “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful,” said Rita Dove. But behind that
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Stream Of Consciousness: The Literary Technique That Let Readers Eavesdrop on Thoughts They Never Asked For ABS Believes: Punctuation is optional. Logic is fluid. And narrative is just a nervous breakdown with literary footnotes. Welcome to the glorious chaos where commas go to die, and writers stop editing their brains. Imagine reading someone’s actual thoughts—unedited,
A Literary Trick So Smooth, Even Ghosts Got Good Reviews There once was a man who believed you could have philosophical conversations with albatrosses, write poems about ancient mariners, and still be taken seriously by 19th-century readers in top hats. His name? Samuel Taylor Coleridge. And he had a problem. Not with laudanum (well, also