Reading Shakespeare is torture. That is why we make actors do it for us.

Do you think the future teachers will have a section dedicated to feet in Tarantino movies??? 🤨

Tarantino screenplays are good fun to read though

Wait, how can that be right? Shakespeare had access to coca leaves and was smoking them? I know it's not literally impossible but it seems unlikely...

Imagine it was all tested in the same lab, contaminated by the same coked up pothead lab tech.

It was the blacks getting the white women high that did it

Well, in the context of a clay pipe, the evidence suggest mary Jane, not hemp cloth.

Ignoramus here: what's the difference?

So he was smoking hemp?

It was in a pipe though?

i'm not what you'd call a poet, i handle the instruments, but i have this thing where for example the word for cat gets stuck between your brain and your tongue so you say claws cuddler or something like that (sorry, coffee is brewing you don't get a good one yet) and when a good one pops out you get good poetry. i blame the drugs.

Weed ---> iambic pentameter

Also there are other ways to poke that side of brain. Most of the good abstract art I write was under sleep derivation.

Then again, I mainly write code, but it was still up to interpretation what that snippet is supposed to do.

also shakespeare is incredibly specific. the example I like to use is the famous

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears!"

Which takes place in a crowded marketplace.

Count the syllables: 1 (friends), 2, (romans), 3 (countrymen), 4 (lend me your ears)

it's a line in which the meter matches the intent - attracting attention in a big group.

Bill will also often add an eleventh unstressed syllable to his dialogue lines if he wants a character to seem vulnerable or weak, indicating they have fallen off meter because of their inner thoughts

very occasionally he does an eleventh STRESSED syllable when a character is being especially dominating and murderous.

The other famous examples is when a peasant or very low status character speaks, it won't be in verse at all, but plain prose.

Dépend, if you are ADHD canabis is an amazing way to increase the symptom and trigger an hyperfocus while going at 200% on all directions, great for a créativity boost. Whole reducing canabis and increasing active plant like caféine help reduce the symptom and make it easy to speak to neuro-typical. May be he had ADD or ADHD and used this to trigger what was called creative transe. My bad I missed the no requirement part. Yeah I join you on the sentiments, but I am not convinced artist need drug to create, like you are.

This is wrong. You cannot imagine what you cannot imagine. Psychedelics definitely allow you to imagine what you previously could not.

Cannabis was used until the 20th century as “tobaco for the poor”

No, it wasn't.