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ETA 02 June 2017: now available on AO3 as "These Late Eclipses"
Note:
GLOUCESTER: These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend/no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can/reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself/scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,/friendship falls off, brothers divide: in/cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in/palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son/and father. This villain of mine comes under the/prediction; there's son against father: the king/falls from bias of nature; there's father against/child. We have seen the best of our time:/machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all/ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our/graves.
— KING LEAR, Act I, Scene ii
( there must always be... )
ETA 02 June 2017: now available on AO3 as "These Late Eclipses"
Note:
GLOUCESTER: These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend/no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can/reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself/scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,/friendship falls off, brothers divide: in/cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in/palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son/and father. This villain of mine comes under the/prediction; there's son against father: the king/falls from bias of nature; there's father against/child. We have seen the best of our time:/machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all/ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our/graves.
— KING LEAR, Act I, Scene ii
( there must always be... )