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Being in love was a big thing for Shakespeare – you can tell because much, much later he wrote a film about it, and called it Shakespeare In Love, so we’d know. He also did what a slightly sappy boy does when he fancies a girl: wrote poems. Specifically, he wrote sonnets, which are a type of poem with an almost musical flow. Sort of like rap but designed especially to be impossible to dance to or enjoy.
Obviously the best things that ever happened, happened around 1980–95. That’s a scientific fact.
Nothing is a very difficult idea to grasp (for some people), because we don’t see it very often. Even when something has been completely destroyed, it is not reduced to nothing, there is always something left behind. For example, there might be dust, or a fine powder, a bit like ground coffee. This is where we get the phrase ‘ground zero’.
