Mojo, The Bard, & Me

-an I had been a man of any occupation, if I had not taken him at a word, I would I might go to hell among the rogues;-

-Casca

Julius Caesar                                Act I, scene ii, line 268

This is part of the same speech that we looked at a few weeks ago. It was the post where I was equating ‘if Caesar had stabb’d their mothers’ to ‘I could shoot someone in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue’. This is Casca, one of the conspirators, describing what had happened with Caesar earlier in the day.  Now right before this line, Casca is describing how Caesar offered to let the crowd cut his throat, and I believe that’s what he’s referring to when he mentions taking him at a word. However, I’m not sure what he’s saying above. I think it’s one of those lines that I’ll live with a while and then when I do come to understand what it means I will wonder how I ever misunderstood it. Yeah, one of those. 

Since I couldn't really figure today's line out, I thought I could give you a picture that we can't really figure out either. Actually, I know what's going on in this picture: this was when Spike was getting old and senile, and he didn't really know what he was doing. What I can't figure out is the relevance of the picture to today's line. Or perhaps that is the relevance: the fact that I can't figure it out. Yeah, that sounds about right. Let's go with that.