Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs, beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses;--‘O sweet Benedick! God give me patience!’

 

Claudio

Much Ado About Nothing            Act II Scene iii, Line 149

So, what’s going on here? I’m sure I don’t know. Let me take a look.

Okay, I read the summary and listened to the scene. Ready?

Benedick thinks he is eavesdropping on Don Pedro and Claudio in the garden, but the latter two know that Benedick is there listening to him. They decide to play a trick on Benedick by talking about Beatrice and how much in love she is with Benedick. And that’s what you’re hearing in Today’s Lines. Of course, Beatrice has done no such falling on her knees, and sobbing, and beating of her heart, but Benedick falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

Got it? Just so you know, Beatrice and Benedick do, in fact, end up together in the end. So I guess it’s all for the best. 

I thought this was a cool close up of Mojo's eye. That's the kitchen sliding door that you see a reflection of. 

Relevance? Uhh, nope, I got nothin'. I just thought it was a neat picture, and a pretty good indication of the quality of iphone pics. It's got nothing to do with Beatrice or Benedick. Sorry.

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

What’s the matter now?

 

Hamlet

Hamlet                   Act III Scene iv, Line 14

Oh my goodness! What a great line! What’s the matter now! It pretty much doesn’t matter that we look at what’s going on in this scene. In fact, it’s probably best that we don’t and just take the line at face value.

What’s the matter now? The next time you utter that phrase you can follow it up with, Hamlet, Act Three, Scene Four, line fourteen. That’ll frost ‘em. 

 

Uh oh. What's the matter now?

 

 

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Her voice is stopt, her joints forget to bow;

Her eyes are mad that they have wept till now.

 

Narrator

Venus and Adonis          Line 1058

Well, she told him not to go out boar hunting, and what did he do? He went out boar hunting. Now the boar’s gotten the best of him, and all Venus has left is a mangled body to cry over. That’s pretty depressing isn’t it? And Christmas Day no less. To be fair, it’s not Christmas for Venus and Adonis, just for Pete and Mojo (and of course everyone else on the planet, or at least everyone else who cares to celebrate Christmas).

Speaking of which, I saw an interesting photo this morning whilst doing some scrolling. It was a picture of the lunar module heading down to the moon with the earth in the background. It was taken by astronaut Michael Collins from the command module of Apollo Eleven as it orbited the moon. The note on the picture was that Collins was the only human being in existence who was not in that picture. Even though you can’t see them, his two fellow astronauts were in the lunar module and everyone else, and I mean everyone, was on the earth in the background. What an interesting thought, eh?

Now, what’s that got to do with Venus and Adonis? Nothing that I can think of, but that’s what came to mind. And it’s a little more uplifting than thinking about Venus crying over Adonis.

 

Merry Christmas.