Today’s Totally Random
Lines
And then he (Marc Antony) offer’d it (the crown) the
third time; he (Julius Caesar) put it the third time by;
and still as he refused it, the rabblement shouted, and clapt their chopt
hands, and threw up their sweaty nightcaps, and utter’d such a deal of stinking
breath because Caesar refused the crown, that it had almost choked Caesar; for
he swounded, and fell down at it: and for my own part, I durst not laugh, for
fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
Casca
Julius Caesar Act I, Scene ii, Line 242
Casca is telling Cassius and Marus Brutus what just happened with Caesar and the crowds. Cassius and Brutus were busy talking and did not witness it.
Apparently, the
crowd, at the suggestion of Marc Antony, three times offered to make Caesar
king, and three times he declined. Also apparently, Casca has a pretty low opinion
of the crowd and the whole spectacle.
Cassius and Brutus
had been busy talking about how they were afraid of Caesar becoming the king,
and the fact that this would not be a good thing. Casca will be joining these two
when the conspiracy to take out Caesar is formed.
Hmmm, someone making rumblings about becoming king in what was up until then a representative republic, and other people discussing the danger of that. It’s too bad that none of Will’s works have any relevance to our modern- day world (in case you missed it, that was sarcasm).
Program note: We will be leaving early tomorrow for four days in Cally before taking off from there for New Zealand for three weeks. We won’t be back in CT for most of January, and consequently, it’s unlikely I’ll be posting again before the end of January. Just so you know.
Until when?!!?!
Uh-oh.
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