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Quiz mania!
Oct. 26th, 2008 02:42 amSo, I went a little silly.... and took a pile of quizzes just to see what would happen.
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A lesson in Shakespeare and sundry..
Feb. 22nd, 2005 08:09 pm"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much" is one of the most misquoted lines from Shakespeare's plays. The line is.. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." --From Hamlet (III, ii, 239)
I would have thought that such a line would have been said about Katherina (Katherine) Binola in the Taming of the Shrew. If any woman spoke her mind, it was she. While her husband tamed her tongue, the ending of the play shows that he did not break her spirit. There's irony for you, with the one or two letters difference, I have the same name as said shrew. It's one of the things that make me go hmmm ...
In Hamlet, Ophelia says... "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts."
There's some truth to the former. If I burn rosemary incense, it often does remind me of things and people.
My teenage son likes Shakespeare. I'm not saying that teenagers shouldn't like Shakespeare, I'm just saying that it's not as often that one will admit it. When I home schooled him for a year, I introduced him to the works of Shakespeare with Midsummer Night's Dream. Not an easy read for a fifth grader, but... we are taking about a kid that tired Lord of the Rings for the first time in sixth grade.
And now for some more things that make me go hmm:
Why do places get cold when spirits are angry?
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Why does dumb rhyme with thumb, but tomb doesn't rhyme with bomb?
When we dig ourselves into holes, why do we often forget to put down the shovel?
When some women say, "it's fine," why are they really saying nothing is fine?
If a man washes a dish and no one sees, did he really wash the dish?
In other news, Sandra Dee, who is best known for her roles as Tammy (Tammy Tell Me True) and Gidget, passed away on Feb 21, 2005 from kidney disease. She was 63.
Lately, I'd been a bit lax in my reading and listening, but ... in the last few days, I finished Forever and The Reptile Room. I started Forever and Always and Swiftly Tilting Planet.
I would have thought that such a line would have been said about Katherina (Katherine) Binola in the Taming of the Shrew. If any woman spoke her mind, it was she. While her husband tamed her tongue, the ending of the play shows that he did not break her spirit. There's irony for you, with the one or two letters difference, I have the same name as said shrew. It's one of the things that make me go hmmm ...
In Hamlet, Ophelia says... "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts."
There's some truth to the former. If I burn rosemary incense, it often does remind me of things and people.
My teenage son likes Shakespeare. I'm not saying that teenagers shouldn't like Shakespeare, I'm just saying that it's not as often that one will admit it. When I home schooled him for a year, I introduced him to the works of Shakespeare with Midsummer Night's Dream. Not an easy read for a fifth grader, but... we are taking about a kid that tired Lord of the Rings for the first time in sixth grade.
And now for some more things that make me go hmm:
Why do places get cold when spirits are angry?
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Why does dumb rhyme with thumb, but tomb doesn't rhyme with bomb?
When we dig ourselves into holes, why do we often forget to put down the shovel?
When some women say, "it's fine," why are they really saying nothing is fine?
If a man washes a dish and no one sees, did he really wash the dish?
In other news, Sandra Dee, who is best known for her roles as Tammy (Tammy Tell Me True) and Gidget, passed away on Feb 21, 2005 from kidney disease. She was 63.
Lately, I'd been a bit lax in my reading and listening, but ... in the last few days, I finished Forever and The Reptile Room. I started Forever and Always and Swiftly Tilting Planet.
