‘… I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air—look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither…’
Hamlet: Act II, Scene II
(or Withnail – your choice)
This is different
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I do like throwing a bit of Shakespeare in here and there!
Makes up for all my F words! 😂😉🖤
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Lol. But I LOVE the C words! Ha ha
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🤣🤣 I’m so glad! 🖤
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Had to look up the Withnail reference, lol. Otherwise, since it’s public domain, I’d just say you wrote it 😁
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Ah, I love Withnail & I.
So funny – as most tragedies are 😉🖤
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The good ones, anyway 😁🖤
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Definitely 😉🖤
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Beware the sterile promontory 🚫
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Indeed 🖤
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And there was me (okay, momentarily) thinking this was you – and of course it is, your choice of Shakespeare words perfect in my view…
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Ah, thank you my friend.
This is one of my favourites of his solioquies 👍🖤
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This hits deep! Great choice of Hamlet 🙂 ❤ Very resonant words.
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I couldn’t agree more my friend 👍🖤
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You’ve lost me….too lerned
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Not at all my friend – Shakespeare is (well, at least it should be) for everyone. It has always irked me how acedemia portrays it as ‘highbrow’ puts so many people off reading /watching Shakespeare’s plays.
Once you get your head around the language (for which there are modern translations to help) you find stories for the ages – apart from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ that is. That really was a poor effort on Bill’s part 😂
Hamlet, however, is possibly the best thing ever to be written in the English language. Shakespeare’s depection of one mans decent into madness is incredible. Well, in my humble opinion it is anyway! 😁🖤
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Translation attempt line 1 quoth me:
It seems I’ve lost my merff yep
My merff , some time ago
How long ago precisely
Precisely I dunno?
Howm’y doing?…..
Still working on translations Lines 2 on……
Reckon there’s a job for me here?….
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There’s certainly is! Looks like you’ve got it my friend! 😁😁🖤
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Good to know you think I’m on the right track…..
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😁😁🖤
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Out out
Damn spot
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Exactly! 🏴🖤
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