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Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

                                          I am sorry,
Most sorry, you have broken from his liking,
Where you were tied in duty; and as sorry
Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,
That you might well enjoy her.

 

Leontes

The Winter’s Tale          Act V, Scene i, Line 54

 

Okay, I listened to the scene this morning on my Arkangel cd's. Twelve minutes and thirty-three seconds; A very well spent twelve minutes and thirty three seconds. Get this: it’s Ciaran Hinds as Leontes! I had no idea. I love that guy. He’s got such a singular affect.

Anyway, this is the scene where Florizel (that's the son of Leonte’s former best friend, Polixenes) and Perdita (that's Leonte’s daughter, though no one at this point knows that she’s his daughter) show up in Siclia. They’re on the run from Polixenes, because Florizel (I’ve always thought that seemed more like a girl’s name?) has decided to marry Perdita, a shepherd’s daughter (at least, for now everyone thinks she’s a shepherd's daughter).

Everyone in the scene has just found out that Polixenes is in town, in pursuit of his son and Perdita, determined to keep them from marrying. This is what Leontes is now realizing, and what he’s remarking on to Florizel in Today’s Totally Random Lines. He’s referring to the fact that Florizel has broken from his father's (that's Polixenes) liking.

Now here’s something from a few lines down. Florizel is asking Leontes for his help, and asking him to remember when he was as young a Florizel is now.

                  --Beseech you, sir,

Remember since you owed no more to time

Than I do now:

Since you owed no more to time. That’s a really interesting way to say remember when you were young, like me. I love those little nuggets that just show up in Will's works. But you’ve got to have your eye’s open for them. They’re kind of like the gems you see in the walls in the Seven Dwarve’s ride at Disneyworld. Kind of like finding that Ciaran Hinds is the voice of Leontes!

Speaking of the Seven Dwarves. And those aforementioned gems. Wait a tic... I count eight.

Oh wait, that's not a dwarf in front there, is it? That's Walker P, and he's not a dwarf (especially not anymore). But he is a gem!

Okay, Seven Dwarves. And gems.