Rory James Leech

In Hamlet Shakespeare tells you he’s going to create a new language so he, like the ghost, can speak to the living for centuries, that a playwrite can mousetrap the mind so totally he’ll become more consequential than a king—and, like Babe Ruth calling his grand slam, actually did that exact thing, we can now say centuries later. Like the Torah’s authors claiming a book is only holy if it get you out of the House of Bondage, and creates a civilization that works, and then, thousands of years after it’s written, passes its own test.

The heat that makes you remember everything that’s ever happened to you