Showing posts with label Dilemma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dilemma. Show all posts
Friday, October 11, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Macbeth Underwater
I'm trying to cut back on my book-buying, so about an hour ago I was faced with a dilemma. In my right hand, I was holding Antonia Fraser's history of the Gunpowder Plot (which I will refer to tangentially when I teach Macbeth this term); in my left hand, I was holding the Diving and Snorkeling Guide to Scotland. I also had tucked under my left elbow a book about 18th-century England that I'd already decided was necessary and inexpensive enough to buy (for another class).
In the spirit of adventure, of Macbeth Underwater, I chose the diving guide, though I'm already noticing that drysuits are preferred over wetsuits -- sure, cold cold water -- and that snorkeling or diving in Loch Ness is not recommended (too silty, too little visibility; no warnings about monsters).
(There's always later in the week for the Gunpowder Plot . . . .)
There may be some broad hints toward that book-plot I've been wrestling with . . . Macbeth Underwater . . . .
In the spirit of adventure, of Macbeth Underwater, I chose the diving guide, though I'm already noticing that drysuits are preferred over wetsuits -- sure, cold cold water -- and that snorkeling or diving in Loch Ness is not recommended (too silty, too little visibility; no warnings about monsters).
(There's always later in the week for the Gunpowder Plot . . . .)
There may be some broad hints toward that book-plot I've been wrestling with . . . Macbeth Underwater . . . .
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