Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Who’s born that day

When I forget to send to Antony,

Shall die a beggar.

  

Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra           Act I, Scene v, Line 72

 

This whole scene is about how much Cleopatra is missing Antony. Apparently she writes to him every day whilst he’s in Rome. That’s what she’s referring to in the lines above, and that's all she's saying here - that she writes to Antony every day.

I don’t like to pass up the opportunity to point out famous Shakespearean lines when our Totally Random Daily lines come close to them. After all, we pretty much never hit the famous ones in our random fashion.

Just a few lines further down Cleopatra gives us one of her more famous lines, referring to when she was younger, and in love with Caesar, in a time before she met Antony. Apparently she had a fling with all the Roman greats of her time. She refers to that time as

                  My salad days,
When I was green in judgement:— cold in blood,
To say as I said then!—But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I’ll unpeople Egypt.

And that’s the end of act one.

My salad days. I dunno about salad days, but I’m feeling pretty good about my current days; call them my dessert days. After all, I get to use the senior parking spot, and I’m smart enough to cheat with an electric bike. 

(2) I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore - YouTube

I'm not sure if I've given you this one previously, but that's okay because it's a good one.