Today’s Totally Random
Line(s)
O my poor father!
The
heaven set spies upon us, will not have
Our
contract celebrated.
Perdita
The Winter’sTale Act V, Scene i, Line 202
Oscar’s my friend, he’s sick, and I’m a cop.
-Murray the Cop
Okay, I’m reading today’s lines out of the blue
without any idea of what’s going on here. They seem to be as completely non
sequitur as the famous lines from The Odd Couple that I quoted above.
But wait; I guess Perdita is saying that the heavens are doing both things: setting
spies and keeping the contract from being settled. So, okay, it makes sense.
Will just loves to leave key parts of a sentence (like the subject) out, doesn’t
he?
But check out these next lines that follow,
Leontes
You are married?
Florizel
We are not, sir, nor are we like to be;
The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first:-
The odds for high and low’s alike.
I love the stars will kiss the valleys first. In other words, the stars will fall out of the sky, or hell will freeze over, before we ever get married. But that’s gorgeous: The stars will kiss the valley first. Beautiful.
See, these are the hidden gems we find doing a random line a day. The stars will kiss the valley before I ever would have found this line otherwise!
1 comment:
I don't know who Florizel is with, but whoever it is, they are probably sitting there waiting for a proposal.
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