Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Good dawning to thee friend: art of this house?

 

Oswald

King Lear               Act II, Scene ii, Line 1

Oswald has pulled up to Gloster’s castle in the early morning hours and is greeted by Kent. This scene goes downhill pretty quickly, ending with Kent locked up in the stocks lamenting,

Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel!

Good dawning and good night. The scene is only about 170 lines long, and we went from daybreak to nightfall?

I dunno; I guess that’s dramatic license?

Perhaps the bard is trying to make a statement about how time flies; and man’s, as well as dog’s, inability to grasp even the barest concept of the true essence of time.

That’s pretty good Mojo; where’ you come up with that idea?

 It was in that philosophy book of yours that I chewed up yesterday.