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me:

A explicitly abusive version of [King Lear] robs us of our ability to feel for Lear. But an explicitly sympathetic Lear robs us of the ability to feel for his daughters. So I think the best version of Lear is exactly the one that Shakespeare wrote: ambiguous. It's the only version in which each character is frustratingly, but fascinatingly, complex. Cordelia loves her tyrannical and mercurial father, but she can't bring herself to say it. It's a paradox- and a question- so rich and sad that Shakespeare required a whole play to explore it.

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friend is trying to convince me this is a common experience and I do not believe her, so

I found a Time interview from 2014 (can't link because I'm on anon) in which Taylor talks about why she's a Knicks fan, and part of the reason is that she has 'sparkly, magical' feelings about MSG because they let her perform at halftime there when she was 12 or 13. If the rumours about the wedding venue are true, that's such a sweet lil nugget.