Edward Murphy

[Edward Murphy @edward_n_murphy]

January 2008 - £3.90
November 2008 - £4.00
April 2012 - £4.20
January 2013 - £4.40
February 2013 - £5.00
December 2017 - £5.99
February 2022 - £6.99
January 2023 - £7.99
July 2024 - £9.99
July 2025 - £10.99
July 2026 - £11.99

A better measure than their ‘Big Mac Index’

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The Economist Newspaper/ Magazine 25 Years Price Increases

This information doesn’t seem readily available so I researched it myself:

May 2001 - £2.70
June 2002 - £2.80
October 2002 - £2.90
September 2003 - £3.00
April 2005 - £3.10
April 2006 - £3.25
February 2007 - £3.60

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Just watched The Odyssey in a 2000 year old Roman arena in Pula, Croatia, built during the reign of Augustus. Unbelievable film and even better location

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@N64_Gamer_ @RussLarson @Avonleebythesea @politicalmath As a first time reader I really loved a new translation of The Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn. Poetic, easy to read, and by all accounts faithful to the text. I then read The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles. It was great but I kinda wish Mendelsohn had also translated the Iliad

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@DecayIRE Nothing yet

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@CoachSeve 😂

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I’ve just finished The Complete Works of Shakespeare.

I don’t usually post on X but as I read each play I wrote down a quick synopsis and quotes that I like. I figured I would put it up on here so that if I lose my phone I’ll still have a record.

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Addendum:

The Poems and The Sonnets

I didn’t write notes the same on the Poems and The Sonnets. I found the Rape of Lucrece hard as it begins with the rapist wrestling with his conscience as he approaches Lucrece’s bedroom. You know what’s coming and the tension builds.

Finis

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“‘Tis neither here nor there” - Emilia (Othello)

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39. (Last Play!)

Othello - Late 16th Century: Venice/ Italy/ Cyprus - great General Othello has loyal Lieutenant Cassio who was promoted ahead of conniving, dishonest, jealous Iago. Othello marries beautiful and pure Desdemona in secret. . .

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“Their best conscience Is not to leave’t undone, but keep’t unknown” - Iago (Othello)

“The Moor already changed with my poison” - Iago (Othello)

“He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know’t and he’s not robbed at all” - Othello (Othello)

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“Men are mad things” - Emilia (The Two Noble Kinsmen)

“I saw her first” - Palamon (The Two Noble Kinsmen)

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38.

The Two Noble Kinsmen - Ancient Greece: Athens/ Thebes - noble & courageous cousins Arcite & Palamon fight for bad side (Creon) & are defeated by Theseus, Duke of Athens. In prison Palamon spies princess Emilia & falls in love. Arcite then sees her & loves her also. . .

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Arcite wins. Falls off horse and dies. Palamon saved just before execution and gets Emilia.

QUOTES

"Th’impartial gods, who from the mounted heavens View us their mortal herd, behold who err And in their time chastise." - Theseus (The Two Noble Kinsmen)

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“I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me” - Adriana (The Comedy of Errors)

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The Comedy Of Errors - Ancient Greece: Ephesus - twin nobles (Antipholus of Ephesus/ Antipholus of Syracuse) & twin commoners (Dromio of Ephesus/ Dromio of Syracuse) separated in shipwreck when tiny. Two Syracuse men visit Ephesus. . .

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“No longer from has to fit than from hip to hip; she is spherical, like a globe. I could find it countries in her” - Dromio of Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors)

“As from a bear a man would run for life, So I fly from her that would be my wife” - Dromio of Syracuse (C of E)

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