Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

No longer Earl of March, but Duke of York:

The next degree is England’s royal throne;

For King of England shalt thou be proclaim’d

In ever borough as we pass along;

And he that throws not up his cap for joy,

Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head.

 

Earl of Warwick

King Henry the Sixth Part III     Act II, Scene i, Line 195                                   

Warwick is talking to Richard who will become Richard the Third. No, not in this play, but in Will’s later play aptly titled Richard the Third.

You know, I can’t seem to help it, but that line about losing your head if you don’t throw your cap for joy as Richard passes makes me think of the United States of America in 2025…

Quick! Pull up Mr. Blagys, pull up!

 

Today’s Totally Random Line

What! Is my Lord of Winchester install’d,

And call’d unto a cardinal’s degree?

Exeter

Henry the Sixth Part I               Act V, Scene i, Line 29                            

I’ve no idea what’s going on here other than what I read in the stage direction: Enter Winchester [in Cardinal’s habit], a Legate, and two Ambassadors.

Presumably, based on Exeter’s comment, the Cardinal’s habit is something new for Winchester. I suppose I’d be a bit surprised too if someone I knew showed up in a Cardinals habit.  

These two see a lot of cardinals in cardinal habits. 

No surprises here.

 

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Away, and talk not; trouble us no more.

 

Saturninus

Titus Andronicus                          Act I, Scene i, Line 478                                   

I’m not sure what the context is here as far as Titus Andronicus goes, but it has perfect context to the phone conversation we just ended. We’ve been in Cally the past six days, and we just got off the phone. with Walker who’s back minding the ranch. We called to check in and make sure everything’s ok. Naturally, things are fine: he’s fine, Mojo’s fine, everything is fine. Walker was not too interested in talking (no surprise), and though he didn’t say it, we’re pretty sure his feeling was Away, and talk not; trouble us no more.

It's just amazing how incredibly timely these Totally Random Lines can be!

A Cally resident we ran into this morning.

Again, no Mojo; he's back at the ranch with Walker P.

 We'll be flying home tomorrow and back with Walker Peter and Buster P. Mojo late in the evening.

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

His discontents are unremoveably

Coupled to nature.

 

Senator

Timon of Athens     Act IV, Scene iv, Line 227                                   

 

Of course, in today’s context, the senator is talking about Timon, who wants nothing to do with humanity. Timon has had it with people. I believe his attitude can be summed up in the immortal words of my friend Uwe: I hate people.

But, in a larger sense I think we can apply Today’s Line pretty much universally. Sometimes the nature referred to can be our own, and sometimes that nature can be nature at large. Case in point:

If either of our young men here, whether it be mild mannered Otto or SuperAug, makes a wrong move, his subsequent discontent will be unremoveably coupled to nature (in this case the nature being embodied in gravity).

 For the record, there were no wrong moves in this case. 

And just so you know, Mojo was not present for today's pic. He is averse to any situations that have a possibility for discontent, unremoveably coupled with nature or otherwise.

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!—So, gentlemen,

With all my love I do commend me to you:

And what so poor a man that Hamlet is

May do t’express his love and friending to you,

God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;

And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.

The time is out of joint:--O cursed spite,

That ever I was born to set it right!—

Nay, come, let’s go together.

[Exeunt]

 

 

Hamlet

Hamlet                             Act I, Scene v, Line 86                                   

Oh boy, that’s a long one, isn’t it. I had to add the last four and a half lines above because it’s the end of the scene. Anyway…

This is the scene where Hamlet meets and talks to the ghost of his father. The ghost says that his brother, Hamlet’s uncle, murdered him, and he tells Hamlet that he must take revenge on his uncle. Then the ghost disappears and Hamlet’s buddies come rushing up to see what happened. They saw the ghost, but they didn’t hear what the ghost told Hamlet. The prince swears them to secrecy and then ends the scene with today’s short speech.

Hopefully, with that short explanation that I gave you, today’s lines should be pretty clear to you.

Clear as mud, Mr. Blagys.

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so, I shall do that that is reason.

 

Slender

The Merry Wives Of Windsor          Act I, Scene i, Line 199                                   

There are mornings that I don’t feel like writing about the line that I pick. Sometimes it’s me, and sometimes it’s the line, or maybe the play. Today I think it’s a little of both the line and the play, but I’m going to soldier on here and see where I get.

Well, there’s the that that in the line. I always find it interesting when you have a proper sentence that has two words, like that that, together. At first glance it can seem clumsy, or perhaps a typo (in fact, I’m surprised that Word doesn’t highlight that that in red as I’m typing), but it’s not. It’s merely that that that is needed to convey the thought. Did you see how I cleverly used three thats in a row in that last sentence that I typed. Now I’m just trying to use the word that as many times as I can in a sentence, and I’m just getting silly. Yes, I’ve been known to get silly. Perhaps that’s a sign that I need to end this post?

I guess you could argue that I shouldn't have bothered soldiering on today. Well anyway, I hope you don’t mind if I end by saying…

 …and that’s that.

Really? That's what you're going to end with? That's that?

 

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!