ALWAYS a smart___ addition to the posts :-)
lol
going home
On Wed, 21 March 2001, "I. S. M." wrote:
>
> More accurately, King Dick 3.
>
> Think Lear has other matters to worry him. Poor Fool. LOL
>
> ISM
>
> The Life and Death of Richard the Third
>
> ACT I
> SCENE I. London. A street.
>
> Enter GLOUCESTER, solus
> GLOUCESTER
> Now is the winter of our discontent
> Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
> And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
> In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
> Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
> Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
> Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
> Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
> Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
> And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
> To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
> He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
> To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
> But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
> Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
> I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
> To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
> I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
> Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
> Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
> Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
> And that so lamely and unfashionable
> That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
> Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
> Have no delight to pass away the time,
> Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
> And descant on mine own deformity:
> And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
> To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
> I am determined to prove a villain
> And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
> Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
> By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
> To set my brother Clarence and the king
> In deadly hate the one against the other:
> And if King Edward be as true and just
> As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
> This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
> About a prophecy, which says that 'G'
> Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
> Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
> Clarence comes.
>
>
> >From: Rayna Lamb <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: "St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List"
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Reading
> >Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:58:38 +0800
> >
> >Wow, really???? THAT is something that won't come out in your average
> >uni lecture on Shakespeare I'll bet! I'm off to get a copy of the
> >play asap. (and to everyone out there who will prob. tell me I can
> >get a copy off the web, yes I know, but I still like to think the
> >printed page is superior to computers!!! <grin> Allow me my delusion!)
> >
> >On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:48:12AM -0500, greer.bobby wrote:
> > 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
>
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