Experiencing the heatwave, but expressed with books

To everyone their coping style, mine is to have an immersive (re)-read of some passages in literature and experience them with a somewhat realistic environment. Suffering alongside characters is as valuable an experience as any other, being able to imagine what these characters are going through is a lesson in empathy. Some are short quotes I find appropriate for this heatwave. I've made a selection of different genres, but really they convey the message well enough. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 1 

'I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire. The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, and, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl; for now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring'

I have to admit that people have been very cranky the past few days (including myself). 

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, often shortened to Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed. The title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. - Wiki 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des Hommes ( Wind, Sand and Stars)

Terre des hommes est un recueil d'essais autobiographiques d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, paru en février 1939 en France, pour lequel il reçoit le grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, puis aux États-Unis, en juin, sous le titre de Wind, Sand and Stars. - Wiki 

Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah 

“Paul turned away. Ugly, barren land! He imagined it sun-soaked and monstrous with heat, a place of sandslides and the drowned darkness of dust pools, blowdevils unreeling tiny dunes across the rocks, their narrow bellies full of ochre crystals. But it was a rich land, too: big, exploding out of narrow places with vistas of storm-trodden emptiness, rampant cliffs and tumbledown ridges.

All it required was water... and love.

Life changed those irascible wastes into shapes of grace and movement, he thought. That was the message of the desert. Contrast stunned him with realization. He wanted to turn to the aides massed in the sietch entrance, shout at them: If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!' ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

George R. R. Martin A Clash of Kings 

A Clash of Kings is the second of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin, an epic fantasy series. - Wiki

George R. R. Martin, A Knight of the seven kingdoms, The Sworn Sword

Tales of Dunk and Egg is a series of fantasy novellas by George R. R. Martin, set in the world of his A Song of Ice and Fire novels. They follow the adventures of "Dunk" (Ser Duncan the Tall, a hedge knight) and "Egg" (Prince Aegon Targaryen, the future King Aegon V), some 90 years before the events of the novels. - Wiki 

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If I find any other good passages I'll add them to this blog post, I'm already thinking of L'étranger by albert Camus and White Nights by Dostoevsky. If you think of a passage let us know, we would gladly read and receive them. 

- blog post by Anaël