Today's Guess The Shakespeare Quote As Reinterpreted By My Buddy Rob:
"Lately it's like...all the fuckin' fun's gone. I can't figure out why! I even stopped working out. The world's a barren fuckin' rock; the air stinks. I mean, people are awesome, right? But lately it's like...what the fuck do I care, for all you dudes? Nope, nor even for the bitches."
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It's probably because I've seen Withnail and I so many times, but I think it might be "I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—no, nor woman neither"
and then Witnail repeats "nor women neither", intriguingly enough.
Hamlet Act II, Scene II.
Act II, Scene II
"I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my reason. "
Can't remember the rest.
Got it, Mel!
Standings:
#1 Lacrema: 4.7
#2 Mel: 1.5
#2 snortingmarmots: 1.5
#4 Edana: 1
Tim, I'm sorry I can't give credit for the partial. I give full leniency for variant punctuation, but I need the full quote (at least, the full portion being paraphrased) and attribution, with no words wrong.
I'm a fuckin' dick when it comes to how big a stickler I am on these quizzes.
Nonetheless, I'm glad to see you taking a crack at it!! Welcome, welcome.
Bear in mind, the trick is to be able to place the quote. Once you place it, nobody but nobody expects you to have it memorized Everybody can, does, and would need to consult the text, to nail the wording.
Man, I thought everybody would crush this one.
Hamlet!
Mel, I have to say, Shakespeare nut that you are, and the other players seem to be here sometimes, gone others...if you keep applying yourself, you may run away with it again! That'd have to win more than just a clock.
Well I think it just shows what a good memory I have.
Other favourite moments from Shakespeare:
"Flies to wanton boys would smell as sweet!"
“To be, or not to be: shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
“Out, damn Yorwick!”
“Alas, poor Ophelia: I am not what I am.”
"A horse! A horse! A very palpable horse!”
“We are such stuff as biomechanical killing cyborgs are made on.”
Actually I’m not 100 per cent sure about the last one – I know Shakespeare did write about biomechanical killing cyborgs but the first part of the quote is a bit doubtful, my memory may have put that in after the fact.
I'm pretty sure Lacrema has this one in the bag! I'm not a Shakespeare nut. I'm the chump who will once again send you to sleep extrapolating on every single reason why it is inconceivable, unbelievable, nay on impossible for a humble dude from Stratford to have written the Shakespeare canon.
"I am ... haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world"
That's some Henry James, for yo face :-)
But the alluring, remote chance of two clocks ...
Hot damn!
WHAT'S THE TIME, GIRL!?
@TimT - one of my faves is, "How NOW, you BLACK and MIDnight HAGS!!"
Punctuation/capitalization approximate.
@Mel - funny, I was reading the wikipedia on that very question, earlier today! Very balanced presentation.
Wiki is certainly much more adept at putting forward the anti-Stratfordian theories then I am. When in a debate slash conversation with a Strafordian, I usually resort to exclaiming "bull fucking shit!" a lot.
I am a bit despondant. I spent probably two years scouring libraries and second hand stores, hiring out and purchasing books to read on every solid and half-baked anti-Stratfordian theory out there, when I could have just read wiki! But it certainly is extremely interesting.
My theory of choice is the Christophe Marlowe one, which is why I joined the Christopher Marlowe would kick William Shakespeare's arse any day facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=2208824736
Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Everybody thought Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays at the time; it wasn't until about 100 years post Elizabethean/Shakespearean England that the first anti-Stratfordian argument was put forward. Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson admitted as much in a poetic tribute to Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.
Oh look, there, I've turned into a humourless ranting old man and ruined the vibe. Sorry guys.
So anyway, having started off on a cranky internet rant in response to Mel's good humoured comment, I thought I'd throw out these other topics for discussion: 'Gay marriage in Palestine', 'The rights of animals in war-torn Iraq', and 'Who would win in a fight to the death between Schrodinger's Cat, Pavlov's Dog, and Einstein's Banana?' Now let's all drink beer and get very angry and shouty at one another.
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