Times are Bad: Blogs, Shakespeare, and Isolation
'Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.' Cicero If Cicero had been writing today, in the midst of Coronavirus lock-down, he might have gone for ‘and everyone is writing a blog’ instead. With little else to do, apart from to exercise once a day in the zealous manner of one who has never exercised once a day before, what can we do but write blogs about isolation, relatable WFH experiences, and the bizarrely common compulsion to conduct zoom meetings without trousers on? N.B. You should always wear trousers. I had planned to write a blog post about Shakespeare in isolation. But would that be the right thing to do? Sometimes posts about WFH procrastination, “finishing” Netflix, and the joy of having a garden can feel a little insensitive. When everything seems so uncertain, is there a place for such frivolity? Aside from the general state of uncertainty in which we are all living, I realise my own worries are negligible. H
