Guardsman-A-Day
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Shakespeare (xii)
"I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life."
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra, Act v Scene ii
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Shakespeare (xi)
"There, take thy hire; and all the fiends of hell
divide themselves between you!"
William Shakespeare
Cymbeline, Act II Scene IV
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Shakespeare (vi)
"Home without boots, and in foul weather
How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?"
William Shakespeare
First Part of King Henry IV, Act III Scene I
Friday, February 13, 2026
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Influences (viii)
"They were watching, out
there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning
and whales ferry their vast souls through
the black and seamless sea."
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Influences (vii)
"The truth about the world, he said, is that
anything is possible. Had you not seen it all
from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness
it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick
in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras
having neither analogue nor precedent, an
itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow
whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field
is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Influences (vi)
"Anger, of course, overcomes all hesitations
and can thus replace the primary reason
precisely because it is no reason at all."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes From Underground
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Influences (v)
"He remembered that Colonel Gerineldo Marquez had once promised to get him a horse with a white star on its face and then he had never spoken about it again. Then he went on toward scattered episodes but he brought them back without any judgement because since he could not think of anything else, he had learned to think coldly so that inescapable memories would not touch any feeling."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Influences (iv)
"Aureliano Serrador had left his girlfriend at her parents' house after having taken her to the movies and was returning through the well-lighted Street of the Turks when someone in the crowd who was never identified fired a revolver shot which knocked him over into a caldron of boiling lard."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Shakespeare, (v)
"Thou hast not half that power to do me harm
As I have to be hurt. Oh gull! Oh dolt
As ignorant as dirt! Thou hast done a deed, --
I care not for thy sword"
William Shakespeare
Othello, The Moor Of Venice Act IV Scene II
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Shakespeare (iv)
"What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling
in leads or oils? what older or newer torture
Must I receive, whose every word deserves
To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny
Together working with thy jealousies,--"
William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale, Act III Scene III
Friday, January 23, 2026
Shakespeare (iii)
"O, he's as tedious
As is a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house: --I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
In any summer-house in Christiandom."
William Shakespeare
First Part Of King Henry IV, Act III Scene I
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Shakespeare (ii)
"Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee:
thy eyes are almost set in thy head."
William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act III Scene II
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