Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Your knowledge has through Ephesus poured forth

Your charity, and hundreds call themselves

Your creatures, who by you have been restored:

And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even

Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon

Such strong renown as time shall never—

       Enter two or three servants with a chest.

 

Second Gentleman

Pericles                               Act III, Scene ii, Line 49

Apparently the two servants entering with a chest interrupt Second Gentleman, so that I don’t think we’re ever going to find out what such strong renown as time shall never do.

Cerimon (that’s the guy that Second Gentleman is talking to and about above; and I believe it’s pronounced Saruman, believe it or not) is being introduced as an amazing doctor – that’s the first three lines above. Apparently he’s also a pretty fabulous all around guy – that’s the next three. And what’s Cerimon’s purpose in this play? Oh, not much; he’s just got to bring Pericles’s wife back to life. She’s in the chest that the two or three servants are entering with.

So today’s six Totally Random lines are spoken by an anonymous henchman who’s only job in the play is to give us a description of a heretofore unknown character who’s also got just one job to do in the play (albeit, this latter character’s job of bringing someone back to life is a little more important than Second Gentleman's job. Or is it?).

Since we're talking about bringing to life, and since this is the anniversary of me being brought to life (out of vitro), we're going with a pic of.... ME!

I don't have a picture of the day I was brought to life (out of vitro), but this is about 64 years closer to that day than today.

 

Sorry, no Mojo today; his birthday is in March.