Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all shamed.

 

Fool

King Lear               Act III, Scene iv, Line 64

We’ve got a scene with Lear, who’s going mad, Edgar, who’s pretending to be mad, Kent, who’s fully sane and acting so, and Fool, who’s the sanest one there, though playing the role of the fool.
They’ve just come across Edgar who’s pretending to be poor Tom the beggar/madman. 

Lear assumes that since he, Lear, is going mad because he has been mistreated by his daughters that it must be poor Tom’s daughters that drove him mad. He asks Tom if he gave everything to his daughters like he, Lear, did. Fool answers that question with today’s line, which I think is meaning that Tom gave everything but a blanket which he is using to cover his nakedness with.

This scene is a really good commentary on the world, then, now, or whenever. Who’s really mad, and who really knows what they’re talking about? Sometimes that is really, really, hard to figure out, isn’t it.

And sometimes I guess it just doesn't matter. Right, Mojo?

Mojo knows.