Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

and forget

Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein

You made great Juno angry.

 

-Pisanio

 Cymbeline                               Act III, Scene iv, Line 166

 

And here we go again with the cross-dressing. I forget the exact context, but I know that Pisanio is telling Imogen she must pretend to be a man, and how to do that. He tells her she must

           Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek,

           Exposing it—but, O, the harder heart!

           Alack, no remedy!—to the greedy touch

           Of common-kissing Titan; and forget

           Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein

   You made great Juno angry.

In other words, well I’m not sure what the other words would be. But he’s telling her to forget how to be a woman, since she’s going to have to pretend to be a man. I’m not sure what it means to expose her cheek to common-kissing Titan (is Titan bi-sexual?), but I think that her dainty trims are the feminine qualities she has that made even Juno, the queen of the gods, jealous. So, yah, act like a man, damn it!

It’s not the first time that Will has a woman pretending to be a man in his plays. Since this is one of his later plays, it might be the last.

So this is me, using the camera angle to try to look like I'm a Giant about to stomp on this building. What's this got to do with today's Totally Random line? Well, other than the fact that it's Totally Random, nothing. Hey wait, it just occurred to me: I'm pretending to be a giant. Okay, it's not the same as pretending to be a woman, or a woman pretending to be a man, but at least it's pretending. So let's conclude that it is a relevant picture. Okay?