Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

I know his eye doth homage otherwhere;

Or else what lets it but he would be here?

-Adriana

  

The Comedy Of Errors      Act II, Scene i, Line 105

 

This is some pretty interesting phraseology, don’t you agree? ‘his eye doth homage otherwhere;’ I like that. And ‘Or else what lets it but he would be here.’ I’m thinking Will picked those particular words and their order because of the perfect iambic pentameter that they form. This may also be true of the ‘otherwhere’ being used instead of ‘elsewhere’.

Of course, Adriana is talking about her husband Antipholus of Ephesus, and just as certainly she is mistaken in her jealousy. But then, this whole play is about mistakes, or as the title refers to them, errors.

And here we have the eraser system of the BLACKWING pencil. The black pencil on top shows the eraser intact, and the brown pencil on the bottom shows the assemblage of the eraser. It's made so that you can pull the eraser out as you use it up and thereby utilize most of the rubber of the eraser. It works fairly well. Relevance? It is one of my best ways of dealing with errors!