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"I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy."
I'm back. More later, perhaps, but for now, here's a story told by a Shakespeare professor/scholar I heard speak this past week:
The story goes as such: Oscar Wilde was enrolled in a Latin class at college. However, he had skipped most of the classes during the semester. So, near the end of the semester, his professor calls him in and says "Look, you've missed quite a few classes, so I want to make sure you're actually learning something." So he has Wilde translate the Gospel of Matthew. He keeps going over and looking at Oscar's work, until after about forty minutes he says, "Okay, that's enough; you obviously have been studying."
To which Wilde replies, "Oh no, I can't stop now! They're about to crucify a man and I want to see what happens!"
In other news, I now have tickets to see The Tempest as done by the Royal Shakespeare Company in November. I hear Patrick Stewart's performance is spot-on, though it'll be difficult to resist referring to him as "Jean-luc Prospero".
The story goes as such: Oscar Wilde was enrolled in a Latin class at college. However, he had skipped most of the classes during the semester. So, near the end of the semester, his professor calls him in and says "Look, you've missed quite a few classes, so I want to make sure you're actually learning something." So he has Wilde translate the Gospel of Matthew. He keeps going over and looking at Oscar's work, until after about forty minutes he says, "Okay, that's enough; you obviously have been studying."
To which Wilde replies, "Oh no, I can't stop now! They're about to crucify a man and I want to see what happens!"
In other news, I now have tickets to see The Tempest as done by the Royal Shakespeare Company in November. I hear Patrick Stewart's performance is spot-on, though it'll be difficult to resist referring to him as "Jean-luc Prospero".
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