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20201113 Friday

Kazakhstan and Japan

Sonnet 76

Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O know, sweet love, I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument,
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
   For as the sun is daily new and old,
   So is my love still telling what is told.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50647/sonnet-76-why-is-my-verse-so-barren-of-new-pride

Just a day after the Philadelphia family business became the unlikely backdrop for a belligerent Trump campaign press conference, its owners cashed in on the viral fame — and even crossed party lines.

belligerent けんか腰 交戦中の hostile

On Sunday night, the company rolled out a line of T-shirts, hoodies and stickers featuring the slogans “Lawn and Order” and its riff on MAGA.

riff on / improvise on something 即興

The hoopla was kicked off Saturday morning with a Trump tweet about an event at the Philadelphia Four Seasons.

Hoopla 大騒ぎ

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/11/933635970/from-obscure-to-sold-out-the-story-of-four-seasons-total-landscaping-in-just-4-d