I am not officially a member of the Studies in Shakespeare class, but Mr. Sexson has generously allowed me to be present, for the sake of the independent study we are conducting together. For this I am glad, because if a class this early in the semester was as stimulating as the one today, then we are all in for a thrilling ride.

I was not aware of the eerie connection between St. Sebastian and Yukio Mishima, but it is there obviously; I also was not aware of that great short piece by Jorge Luis Borges, "Everything and Nothing" which says what really matters about Shakespeare's identity in as brief a span of time as possible(I suspect it may render all those other huge volumes composed about who Shakespeare was or wasn't sound and fury signifying nothing).

And I now know what I wish to focus my study on: Divine Love. I am now off to read Love's Labours Lost.