Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Go, then; for ‘tis in vain

To seek him here that means not to be found.

 

-Benvolio

Romeo and Juliet                    Act I Scene ii, Line 41

 

Benvolio is talking to Mercutio. Romeo was with these guys, but he’s given them the slip and hopped the wall into the Capulet’s orchard. Now these two guys are about to stop looking for him. Two lines further on is Romeo's famous But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? But we didn’t randomly pick that line, we randomly picked Go, then; for ‘tis in vain. It was in the roll of the die.

So let’s think about this: if you stopped a hundred different people on the street… well if you stopped a hundred different people there’s a decent chance one of them would shoot you. But if you could read both of these lines, the Go, then line and the But soft line to a hundred different people, there’s a pretty good chance that at least a handful would place the But soft line. There’s almost a zero chance that even one would place the Go, then line.

And what do we sift from this? I’m not sure; perhaps the craziness that exists in the randomness of it all. Yeah, let’s go with that. And to be clear, when I say it all I mean everything. Everything!

 

Okay, the pics don't get much more random than this. Kinda funny, but definitely random.