I am Naples @i-am-naples - Tumblr Blog

Crazy day today, guys--

so turns out my beloved son ISN’T dead (rather embarrassing please disregard my previous mourning posts), and turns out in the course of three hours he has managed to become betrothed to some young maiden on the island. A little forward for my tastes, but no matter! I give my blessings.

Welcome to the family, @mirandaofmilan. If there’s anything at all you might need communicated, just let Ferdinand know. He’ll be happy to relay the message.

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Me and squad. Going to miss these guys! Even though they were really impressionable, and their inebriation got in the way of my eventual reclamation of the island, not to mention their commentary on the human condition’s propensity to entitlement… Bitter? I’m not bitter! I’m fine! Everything is fine!

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My foolish butler-- is that you? You’re drunk AGAIN? And why are you hanging around that foul beast of the earth? We need to have a talk, Stephano...

@prosperotherightfulduke: my guilt is such that the billows spoke and told me of it, and the thunder pronounc’d thy name... truly, I feel great remorse. Peace offering?

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learning about this new concept...... rather concerned....... is anybody on this island knowledgable about the Upanishads?????

I hated it. Alone and confused was the last place I wanted to be. Somehow I knew I deserved this.

Brian Krans, A Constant Suicide

#deservedpunishment #sorryprospero

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Why do you suppose they made you king in the first place?’ I ask him. ‘Not for your benefit, but for theirs. They meant you to devote your energies to making their lives more comfortable, and protecting them from injustice. So your job is to see that they’re all right, not that you are - just as a shepherd’s job, strictly speaking, is to feed his sheep, not himself.

Thomas More, Utopia (via gonzalotheadvisor)

Just saying this is the kind of king I would be if the island was my plantation.

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hah! what airy-fairy rubbish. take it from a REAL king-- sometimes it’s necessary to conquer with an iron fist.