Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Her part, poor soul! Seeming as burdened

With lesser weight but not with lesser woe,

Was carried with more speed before the wind;

And in our sight they three were taken up

By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought.

-Aegeon

The Comedy of Errors           Act I, Scene i, Line 107

We’re in the middle of Aegeon’s tale at the beginning of the play which gives us the backstory to the play. He’s describing how his wife, with two of the four boys, drifted away after the boat split in two and they were picked up by fishermen of Corinth. He’ll go on to explain that he and the other two boys, in the other half of the boat, were picked up by sailors from Epiduarus. And that is the premise for how two of the boys and the mother were separated from the other two boys and their father.

It's a pretty hokey story, but also pretty important as it gives an important part of the premise for the rest of the play. Good ol’ backstory, eh?  

This is a pic from the bridge of the ship. That water is the Drake Passage which can be a pretty rough sea at times. We crossed it to Antarctica and then back again. It was pretty calm, as this pic shows, on the way out, but it got a bit rougher on the way back. Luckily, it didn't get rough enough to break the ship in half, like it did to Aegeon's, but it did get rough enough to give me a real good case of mal de mer, poor soul! I don't think I'll be doing the Drake Passage again anytime soon.