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  1. Jan 2024
    1. you’ll have yourdaughter covered with a Barbary horse. You’ll have yournephews neigh to you. You’ll have coursers for cousinsand gennets for germans.

      The comparison of Black people to beastly beings, such as horses. It nearly shows a predatory danger for Desdemona like getting eaten up by wolves. He describes a human loving relationship as an animalistic dynamic

    2. nd now in madness,Being full of supper and distempering drafts

      Drunkeness indicating/foreshadowing the manipulation Roderigo and other characters will fall under from Iago's malicious plans.

    3. Why, wherefore ask you this?

      Huge contrast between Brabantio and Iago's speech. Iago speaks with great rhetoric and symbolism with souls and devils, indicating his own witchery. This is contrasted with the conversational style of Brabantio.

    4. Poison his delight,Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen,And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,Plague him with flies. Though that his joy be joyYet throw such changes of vexation on’t,As it may lose some colo

      "Poison" "Incense" "Plague" "Vexation" all signify witchery, indicating the motif of mutual witchery. What one hates in oneself will be targeted to the outside?

    5. For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, ’tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. I am not what I am

      His duplicity is so extreme that he simply cannot define himself as he says "I am not what I am". It is ironic because his hate for Cassio is the same as what he is -- a dishonest witch who pretends to be righteous man. Does this indicate he hates himself as well?

    6. What a full fortune does the Thick-lips oweIf he can carry’t thus!

      Demonstrates yet again the objectification and erasing of dimensions of Moors.. just like women.

    7. In following him, I follow but myself.

      An ironic phrase as the diction seems passionate and self-aware

    8. Whip me such honest knaves. Others there areWho, trimmed in forms and visages of duty,Keep yet their hearts attending on themselvesAnd, throwing but shows of service on their lords,Do well thrive by them. And when they have lined theircoats,Do themselves homage.

      The true colors of Iago, ironically just like what he hated Cassio for, the sly and two-faced witchery

    9. follow him to serve my turn upon him.

      Irony established from previous chivalrous idea

    10. Preferment goes by letter and affection,And not by old gradation, where each secondStood heir to th' first.

      A kind of juxtaposition between the "womanly" / "witch-like" Michael Cassio and the "chivalrous" and "honest" man Iago (as seen by him), showing the perception of men and women.

    11. A fellow almost damned in a fair wife

      Demonstrates the view of women as two-dimensional tools with specific and sole uses for men, who cannot take or assume any other role that men may.

  2. May 2023
    1. however, not all nonpolar side groups can be buried.

      Would this always cause a sticky end that can cause aggregations of proteins? Would it always be problematic?

    2. Also note that every atom in the backbone has a slight charge arising from the presence of the electronegative atoms O and N. Hence the backbone is polar.

      That's why secondary structure is not dependent on R-groups polarity. A polar or charged R-group and a nonpolar R group do not determine the polarity of the backbone -- it is always polar, and can always participate in secondary structure.