Mojo, The Bard, & Me

I had thought, my lord, to have learn’d his health of you.

-Henry Percy

King Richard II                        Act II, Scene iii, Line 24

Well this is a bit strange. The Totally Random line from 6/27 that I wrote yesterday’s post on was from the play Henry IV Part I. It was the last line spoken by Henry Percy, aka Hotspur before he dies.

Today we are in the play Richard II. Like many of the characters in Will’s history plays, Henry Percy’s character spans two or more of the plays. Henry shows up first in Richard II, and as we found out yesterday, he dies in Henry IV Part I. Well today’s Totally Random line (and I assure you it is absolutely, positively, Totally Random) is Henry Percy’s first line spoken in any of Will’s plays. So we’ve managed to pick his first and last lines, and from two different plays. Well, actually it’s his last and first lines, but still.

Oddly enough both lines are concerned with well-being. Yesterday we were discussing Henry’s health; his imminent death and becoming worm food. Today we’re discussing the health of Worcester, or rather the lack of knowledge of Worcester’s health.

The last and the first.

Definite knowledge of death, lack of knowledge of life.

I think that’s just really interesting, and more than just a bit ironic.

Comments? Oh come on now, someone’s got to have a comment on this.

This is a Mobius band. If you cut it down the middle to try to make two bands you'll still end up with one band. So does it have a beginning? or an end? Or, much unlike Henry Percy, does it have neither?