<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:09:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@docconstantin/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Shakespeare: Macbeth Act 3]]></title><description><![CDATA[We continue the play with Macbeth crowned King. Scene 1 Summary: Scene one starts with Banquo alone, contemplating his plans. He is strongly suspicious of Macbeth and at this time believes that he is the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/shakespeare/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-macbeth-act-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/shakespeare/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-macbeth-act-3</guid><category><![CDATA[shakespeare]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 07:22:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/mXkfdToSwHxxv6G5sPbKiD8z4bKVLeMv6AKsgPt7iBf5k9cqF5bktnu5PdEQtijHs1BR3gdPtuZa7R55sY5iQNPk67qHqMaTAbFrvH963?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Shakespeare: Macbeth Act 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Act 1 was exciting. The scene was set, a gloomy war-torn Scotland. The principal actors were introduced, the good King Duncan, his son Prince Malcolm, victorious Macbeth and his ambitious ice cold wife]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/macbeth/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-macbeth-act-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/macbeth/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-macbeth-act-2</guid><category><![CDATA[macbeth]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:57:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MG5aEqKFcQi5hTB1D6hLjMzS8aEwn8ECWZ8WdigvZmXBjV1gNP59uebNaUBh1tMLXkrmy62eWfcCV2DipYmHzefYF2UnY5Zkz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Shakespeare: Macbeth part I]]></title><description><![CDATA[My adventure through the Western Canon begins with Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth. First performed around 1606 during the reign of James I traditionally believed to be cursed by the world of theater,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/shakespeare/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-macbeth-part-i</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/shakespeare/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-macbeth-part-i</guid><category><![CDATA[shakespeare]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2018 01:53:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/ADdPNihJzmPa4Y7ucFNk7ZaghKbuFGrDVNrjBLajyG1ZJKK9d8ek4r4bhaBc9cgRLRN4Xr9zsHpBYmiZBhgZTStXg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Shakespeare part II]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since I last posted I've received a bunch of messages and comments from people interested in my reading through Bloom's Western Canon, specifically my upcoming read of Shakespeare. A few interested in]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/shakespeare/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-part-ii</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/shakespeare/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-part-ii</guid><category><![CDATA[shakespeare]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:19:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/ADdPNihJzmPa4Y7ucFNk7ZaghKbuFGrDVNrjBLajyG1ZJKK9d8ek4r4bhaBc9cgRLRN4Xr9znTcu6A2xmkrdutVP4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Shakespeare part I]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week I outlined my goal to read through The Western Canon, focusing on the twenty-six writers Bloom considers key to understanding Western Literature. Shakespeare is the first, considered by many]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reading/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-part-i</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reading/@docconstantin/reading-shakespeare-part-i</guid><category><![CDATA[reading]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:13:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brutal by James Alderdice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brutal by James Alderdice Japanese Jidaigeki meets Grimdark fantasy. James Alderdice, the pen name of David J. West channels Akira Kurosawa in this fantastic first installment of his latest grimdark sword]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bookreview/@docconstantin/brutal-by-james-alderdice</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bookreview/@docconstantin/brutal-by-james-alderdice</guid><category><![CDATA[bookreview]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2018 08:44:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/368La1qZAv729WFhvJJcbZkt8mzkZEZSwThijDbNyFGzAMv3rsfuodwjkdX3XVvnqokjyC14GwtnsLP5Wz7mZZRx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading the Western Canon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canon, defined as a collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine. Reading has always been an essential part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are of my grandmother reading. My maternal]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reading/@docconstantin/reading-the-western-canon</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reading/@docconstantin/reading-the-western-canon</guid><category><![CDATA[reading]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2018 06:57:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2YRZBi4FZVHeKjYX9vQ945yeVvRiYnAuFoSp9o51DRdWENWdzmNRLKNviEizBcuemCkahUZCFm5x741CLmVxPQgHnzDxtyG8DBk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: A Moon Full of Stars by Jon Mollison]]></title><description><![CDATA[I started my 2018 with a bang, reading Jon Mollison's A Moon Full of Stars. Jon is a novella writing, pulp revolution spreading, machine, whose writing seems to get better and better with each piece. I've]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bookreview/@docconstantin/book-review-a-moon-full-of-stars-by-jon-mollison</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bookreview/@docconstantin/book-review-a-moon-full-of-stars-by-jon-mollison</guid><category><![CDATA[bookreview]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2018 12:53:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/X37EMQ9WSwsK1QaAJik8JZkHfstrmGrnPkrhs5wpu3zVyVAwjsTFbfiuvhY4BwrK5auGvafHXdi6JSL2nA1AonhZF89cvM8G3Fmfk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War Against Beauty]]></title><description><![CDATA["Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice." In yet another battle in the ongoing war against beauty and Western Civilization puritanical feminists who run a Manchester, England Art Gallery decided]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blogging/@docconstantin/the-war-against-beauty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blogging/@docconstantin/the-war-against-beauty</guid><category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2018 12:15:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/23KQwnti57strNwtwhXErEswLaBtpMs8SZk12nN6hWKoCNua1BtNgdfYRcsZpo2JwpQfYLQwnr91KCQqaxPr7LTZivcj6er?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tiger in the Garden: Part IV]]></title><description><![CDATA[      A disgraced and exiled noble, stripped of his status, spends his days drinking and whoring in the exotic jungle colonies. When pressed to pay his debts he gets entangled]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@docconstantin/a-tiger-in-the-garden-part-iv</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@docconstantin/a-tiger-in-the-garden-part-iv</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[docconstantin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:56:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/vM1pGHgNcyCbV3mxE8AreHVc7uUjoQ1UDcDeaGsUt65SY8ywUrMMR7xWPjYVNDLmakCt4f8JGMGL2EcYCya8sRfpWT8GSrMCAoJNg17nynTdTFTxje4mgNcjgBVWcmzcTGeknBq?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tiger in the Garden: Part III]]></title><description><![CDATA[      A disgraced and exiled noble, stripped of his status, spends his days drinking and whoring in the exotic jungle colonies. 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