How Shakespeare?

[milo]

I know, right. If I was living in Shakespeare's day, I could get an actress as easy as I could get a whore. Probably easier, as while you have to pay for a whore, any woman who claimed that she would be with me for free would have to be an actress.

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I myself read so-called canonical work almost exclusively. A kind of necromancy.

I always pictured you as more steam-punk.  Have you ever researched the ballerinas of the time of Degas - most of them had to whore themselves out while not dancing as there was not much pay and they would need a patron or extra income.  Degas painted many of them though he had a strange disgust of them which for the most part he could translate into beauty.  Have you ever seen Little Dancer aged Fourteen?  I feel you would like it.

As for me - my avoidance of the canon has become canonical of my own mythos to the point the canon has taken to avoiding me quite publicly I might add.

I've spent days in London Hotel bars smoking Dunhills and sipping absinthe while explaining to all that would listen how all Western canon is canonically not canon at all much to the delight of the masses who love to see statues torn down and heroes crawling in the mud and gods whoring it out with simple weavers' daughters.