Rayna,

    It is my understanding that King Lear was disabled and was probably CP. The
famous line, "Now is the summer of our discontent..." is the beginning of the
silliloquy to which I referred.

Bobby

Rayna Lamb wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:59:06AM -0500, Bobby Greer wrote:
>     In a message dated 3/21/01 1:44:01 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>     << Mind you, I'm a fully fledged highbrow literary snob now, and proud of
>     it!!!!!!!!! >>
>
>     Now Rayna, don't go too highbrow on us. I liked King Lear mysel. The best
>     sililoquy on being CP I have ever read. Ol' William Shakespeare had a way
>     with words!
>
>     Bobby
>
> Haven't most of my contributions to the list proved that I'm quite
> capable of being lowbrow? lol
> Haven't read King Lear yet, I'll have to keep an eye out for the
> soliloquy you mentioned.  The Bard certainly did do wonderful things
> with language, I can forgive him for having such BIMBOS for female
> characters because of that.  And he gave us the perfect quote for
> summing the human race, `Oh Lord, what fools these mortals be'.
>
> Rayna