Mojo, The Bard, & Me

One Hundredth Post

Today is the one hundredth post. It has been 102 days since we started, so we’ve only missed posting on two days, and both those two days came in the last week. I had hoped to go one hundred days straight without missing a day, but that was just not to be.

Hopefully you’ve noticed that there is no line of Shakespeare at the beginning of this post. I’ve decided that instead of adding a new line, we should spend this post looking back on the first one hundred posts. So, what have we learned in 102 days.

We’ve found some really fabulous lines, some of them were great as soon as we laid eyes on them, and some of them took a bit of work to find the greatness. And we’ve found some lines that were just plain difficult to work with. My four favourites are

What need the bridge much broader than the flood

Nothing

O world, thy slippery turns

Good Michael, look you to the guard tonight

We've learned quite a bit about Shakespeare’s works. Coriolanus, for one, is a play that I didn’t even know existed and now I know it pretty well. Also I’ve gained a pretty good working knowledge of all the kings that make up Shakespeare’s history plays from Edward III to Richard III.

We’ve found that the random system seems to work pretty well. In one hundred days we’ve sampled all but three of the thirty-seven plays in my compilation along with two poems and some sonnets. We’ve also found that the random system can be quite quirky.

We’ve decided that the random system does make a certain sense in that it gets us to spend time in places that we might otherwise never spend the time. And we’ve found that some of those places are certainly worth spending the time.

We’ve seen firsthand how relevant much of Will’s work is to our world in 2016. We shouldn’t be surprised.

We've come to realize that it takes a bit of time to post on a daily basis. Perhaps too much time. We'll have to give this some thought.

This and more we’ve learned. We intend to move forward with the Daily Lines. I expect we’ll be making some changes as we go, but for now we’re still enjoying doing it. And that’s what counts.