Sunday, September 14, 2008

Thoughts on Shakespeare

This is probably the only time I will ever say this, but I love him. A lot. Reading King Lear makes me think that there wouldn't be any fun words in the English language if not for Shakespeare. For example: "An admirable evasion of the whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star. My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing..." Not only is this guy blaming his creepiness on the positions of stars at the time he was conceived, he's using words like "maidenliest" and "the whoremaster man" while he's at it. Genuis, Shakespeare; I applaud you. "Fut" all the people that think that your greatest claim to fame was poncing around in a codpiece while writing incomprehensible drivel.
Little Red

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