Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Line(s)

           

The one, to save the money that he spends in tiring; the other that at dinner they should not drop in his porridge.

  

-Dromio of Syracuse

 The Comedy of Errors           Act II, Scene ii, Line 97

                 

Okay, I’m going to confess that I’m having a hard time understanding what Antipholus and Dromio are talking about here. Today's Totally Random Line is Dromio's answer to the question of what are the reasons that the plainer- dealer, the sooner lost; yet he loseth it in a kind of jollity. 

I believe his statement about the plainer-dealer is that the more honest the man, the sooner he loses his hair, and he’s happy about losing it and in not getting wig. And the two reasons he’s happy about this is what Today's Totally Random Lines are talking about. He's happy because he he saves the money he would spend on haircuts or wigs, and he also doesn’t have to worry about his wig or hair falling in his porridge. 

Or something like that. 

Yeah, I admit it: Wills stuff can be hard to understand at times; and in particular his comedies because it’s there that he gets into the wordplay of puns and double-entendres.

Oh well.. Or should I say Oh Will!  

 Hey, that's not porridge; that's peppers and eggs (or eggs and peppers, depending on how you look at it). But that's arguably better than porridge, and as far as I can tell, it's got no hair in it.