Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Line(s)

  

And these does she apply for warning and portents

And evils imminent; and on her knee

Hath begg’d that I will stay at home to-day.

  

-Caesar

 Julius Caesar                 Act II, Scene ii, Line 82

  

What are these? What is it that she believes to be portents?

Well, first of all, she is Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife. And she dreamt she saw Caesar’s statue

             …like a fountain with an hundred spouts,

        Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans

        Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it.

Oh, is that all?

Caesar is talking to Decius Brutus. The latter has come to escort Caesar to the senate, and the former is telling Decius that he’s going to stay home today, and Today’s Totally Random Line is why. I don’t suppose I need to tell you that Decius ends up talking Caesar into going to the senate, do I? 

Shoulda’ listened to his wife, eh?

Heres' a pic of me and my Calpurnia (no, that's not actually her name). Do I always listen to her? Pretty much. Do I always do what she says to do? Well....