T'were
to consider too curiously, to consider so.
-Horatio
Hamlet Act
V, scene i, line 212
Translation: You think too much, Hamlet. In fact, if
you wanted to sum us this play in one sentence (and I’m not saying that you
really could), you might use this line, You think too much, Hamlet. Though
Will’s way of putting it is much nicer. T'were to consider too curiously, to
consider so.
Hamlet spends an awful lot of time thinking, and
re-thinking, in this play. Horatio’s response here is to Hamlet’s thought that
it might be possible to trace Alexander the Great from his life, to his dead
body, to that body rotting into dirt, and from thence to a cork stopping up a
beer keg. That’s right, that’s Alexander the Great stopping up that keg of beer
over there. Wow.
Yes, I definitely feel like Hamlet a lot of the time. And
just like him, I’m pretty sure that most of my thinking ain’t doing me much good.
Here's me with my Hamlet face; I'm thinking. I've no idea what I was thinking about, but I'm definitely thinking.
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