The Inevitability of Suffering

In Shakespeare i now call self other seeing it has to do with our impulse to stage our own suffering and our crises by self other seeing. The double consciousness of observing our own actions and sufferings as though they belonged to others and not to ourselves while being aware we possess them the consequence is a strangeness that makes us shake our heads and rub our eyes in perplexity. There's a really great exercise recommended by Helen Vendler she's a great exegee who said she could only speak authoritatively onakespeare's sonnets when she had them in memory. Once you have something in your memory you know it you possess it and it possesses you. We get that with poetry we mark something