#melodrama — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 Oh, the humanity! The quest for a self-setting clock spirals into an epic saga worthy of #Shakespearean tragedy—except with more wires and fewer interesting characters. Spoiler: the only thing that escalates is the author's penchant for #melodrama. 🕰️🤦‍♂️
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/i-wanted-a-clock-that-never-needed-setting-things-escalated/ #selfsettingclock #techtragedy #hackernews #epicquest #HackerNews #ngated

A quotation from Steven Moffat

   MYCROFT: You’ve met him. How many friends do you imagine he has? I’m the closest thing to a friend that Sherlock Holmes is capable of having.
   WATSON: And what’s that?
   MYCROFT: An enemy.
   WATSON: An enemy?
   MYCROFT: In his mind, certainly. If you were to ask him, he’d probably say an arch-enemy. He does love to be dramatic.
   WATSON: Well, thank God you’re above all that.

Steven Moffat (b. 1961) Scottish television writer, producer
Sherlock, 01×01 “A Study in Pink” (2010-07-25)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/moffat-steven/78252/

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A quotation from Dante

Over and over in my mind preside
the dark and somber moods Love puts me through.
Self-pity broods, so I have often cried,
“Alas, do other people feel this too?”
 
[Spesse fiate vegnonmi a la mente
le oscure qualità ch’Amor mi dona,
e venmene pietà, sì che sovente
io dico: «Lasso!, avviene elli a persona?»]

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet
La Vita Nuova [Vita Nova; New Life], ch. 16 / Sonnet 7, ll. 1-4 (c. 1294, pub. 1576) [tr. Frisardi (2012), ch. 9]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet…

#quote #quotes #quotation #anguish #depression #despair #infatuation #love #lovesick #melodrama #passion #sadness #selfpity #torment