Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats (a lawn game like bocce or horseshoes) with ‘em? 

 

Hamlet

Hamlet                             Act V, Scene i, Line 97                                   

This is the scene where Hamlet and his buddy Horatio come upon the churchyard at night, and they are watching two gravediggers at work. The gravediggers have tossed up a skull that they’ve come across whilst digging, and it is the skull that Hamlet is talking about. They’ll come across another skull a few lines down and that one is the famous Yorick. But the skull in Today’s Line is just that of some anonymous henchman, and Hamlet is remarking at the insignificance of it, regardless of how important the owner of the skull may have been in life.

It’s a philosophical comment and not surprising considering that it’s coming from Hamlet. I can get a bit philosophical myself at times, and that’s not surprising either considering it’s coming from me. In fact, Mojo and I spend a lot of time philosophizing, thinking deep thoughts.

Sometimes I like to imagine what Mojo is thinking about: perhaps the nature of existence, or maybe the true meaning of beauty?

Squirrel!

Up in that tree, squirrel!