Discovery, wild eyes, keen insight
Strong, well quantified words. Especially potent and worthy of our Friday. I do not wish to miss our Shakespearean deadline. There are few readers of this, and fewer elements of our world dependable. It has been a strenuous week, if a Mount Gay pause at this moment the Bedford way. My namesake continues a monumental struggle, if only to show his absolute immacularity. And if that is not a word, I coin it after another visit in his vicinity. Get that blood pressure up, old man.
Shari has the attitude for the evening, hopefully the nearest available pub will provide suitable gamers. The more ridiculous that my sister must be driven off to the airport at 5am. I promise not to nod off at the wheel.
So to Shakespeare - of nowhere tonight, on the drive to the uncle/aunts after visiting the other JAM, Dad asks if he is the author of those plays. I hope so, is my reply, to which the response comes, I hope so too. Never knew he thought that.
So at the last hour, of my most favorites - from Henry IV. Banish not him, Harry. Banish not the world. For it is lovely. See you on the morrow. And let the fleeting desire for the absurdly named "Dr. Sharp's Route 2 Roadhouse" and the unShakespearean characters to be met there, not take much offence.
Falstaff
But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,
were to say more than I know. That he is old, the
more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but
that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,
that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,
God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a
sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if
to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine
are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,
banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack
Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,
valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,
being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him
thy Harry’s company, banish not him thy Harry’s
company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

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