Shakespeare on the End of the Shuttle Era

Posted on September 23, 2012 by jimmie

all that lives must die passing through nature to eternity“Thou know’st ‘tis common – all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.”
(Hamlet, act 1.2)

Comments. Appropriate lines to accompany the end of the Space Shuttle Era, with the spectacular return of the Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles – while the B-747 that carried it made passes on some classic American icons or symbols, the Golden Gate and Hollywood.
Endeavour made its first flight in 1992, six years after the Challenger disaster. It flew on the next-to-last shuttle mission in May and June 2011. During its missions, Endeavour logged 299 days in space and circled Earth 4,671 times. Its total off-the-planet mileage: 122.8 million miles (about 1.5 the distance between the earth and the sun). Endeavour was named after the first ship Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, Romney and Shamelessness

Posted on September 22, 2012 by jimmie

Shame where is thy blushO, shame, where is thy blush?
(Hamlet, act 3, sc. 4)

Comments and Tips for Use. Comment on any action, words or proposal with which you strongly disagree. In the instance, as we know, Republican presidential nominee Romney just released his 2011 tax returns, showing he paid 14% in taxes on $14 million of income last year. Good for him!
Mitt Romney is the embodiment of his class. He would cut the taxes of his peers by umpteen trillions over the next decade. And he would cut benefits that almost Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Anger and a Desire for Rebellion

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jimmie

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth“O, that my tongue were in the thunder’s mouth!
Then with a passion would I shake the world.”
(King John, act 3, sc. 4)

Tips for Use and Comments. A most appropriate quote when you feel helpless about a series of events on which you have Oppose Senate Bill S 3525no control or power. You feel only anger and a desire for rebellion. The lines are particularly applicable to a new bill, introduced in the American Senate (bill S. 3535). If passed, it would undo years of protection for polar bears, and would continue to put millions of animals and people at risk for lead poisoning. The so-called “Sportsmen’s Act of 2012” seeks to indulge a small group of wealthy trophy hunters who want to import sport-hunted polar bear trophies from Canada Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on the Waste of Time

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jimmie

the clock upbraids me with the waste of time“The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.” (Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 1)

Tips for Use and Comments. Change ‘me’ to ‘us’ when you wish to convince your companions to stop wasting time. Time is a commodity, it is the inexplicable raw material of everything and it is extraordinary that it has not been privatized (as yet). Yes, we do not know how long for, but every time we wake up in the morning our commodity portfolio is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of everyone’s life. Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Men like Bees and Bees like Men

Posted on September 19, 2012 by jimmie

Obedience, for so work the honey-bees...Therefore doth heaven divide
The state of man in divers functions,
Setting endeavour in continual motion;
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts…  (Henry V, act 1, sc. 2)

Comments.  The Bishop of Canterbury provides specious, interminable and hard to follow reasons to support the imperialist aims of King Henry V over France. Even so, Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and how Lobbying Works

Posted on September 18, 2012 by jimmie

Image of lobbying contributor and receiving politician“Comest thou with deep premeditated lines,
With written pamphlets studiously devised
Humphrey of Gloucester?”
(King Henry VI part 1, act 3, sc.1)

Comments.  In the instance, the bishop of Winchester accuses the duke of Gloucester of using “studiously devised” documentation so as to deprive the bishop of his rights, whatever they may be.
Today, the task of preparing ‘studiously devised’ documents is conducted Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Public Relations Machine of Richard III

Posted on September 17, 2012 by jimmie

not sleeping to engross his idle body, but praying to enrich his watchful soul“Not dallying with a brace of courtezans,
But meditating with two deep divines,
Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,
But praying, to enrich his watchful soul.”
(King Richard III, act 3, sc. 7)

Comments. Italian writer and historian  Benedetto Croce said that all history is “contemporary history”. It means that history consists essentially in seeing the past through the eyes of the present and in the light of its problems. Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, Compliments to a Lady and the Discreet Casanova

Posted on September 16, 2012 by jimmie

full many a lady I have eyed with best regards“Full many a lady
I have eyed with best regards; and many a time
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have I lik’d several women; never any
With so full a soul, but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow’d,
And put it to the foul.”
(Tempest, act 3, sc. 1)

Tips for Use. You have to enunciate these lines slowly or she may have a hard time to follow. Ferdinand’s is a somewhat long-winded way to say to Miranda, “You are the best.” Still… all women like to be #1 at least for you if you love them.” Which, to think about it rationally, is a way of measuring love by statistics. Unpleasant idea per se (excepting the American psyche), but not at all surprising Continue reading →

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More on Shakespeare, Mass Psychology, Julius Caesar and Kate Middleton

Posted on September 15, 2012 by jimmie

how many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over“How many ages hence
Shall this, our lofty scene be acted over,
In states unborn and accents yet unknown.”
(Julius Caesar act 3, sc. 1)

Comments and Tips for Use. Use in earnest or in irony – the latter if a totally unimportant event has taken place. On Friday Sep 15 we entered and commented on the quote “….the fool multitude that choose by show.” – referring to what galvanizes the attention of the masses. As we know, today’s technological marvels deliver instant statistics on almost everything. As if to further Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Mass Psychology, Irrelevance and Kate Middleton

Posted on September 14, 2012 by jimmie

 the fool multitude that choose by show“…the fool multitude, that choose by show,
Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach;
Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet,
Builds in the weather on the  outward wall,
Even in the force and road of casualty.”
(Merchant Of Venice, act 2, sc. 9)

Comments and Tips for Use. The first line is sufficient to convey the idea. Shakespeare has may quotes in different plays addressing the issue of mass psychology, irrelevance and idiocy. The paradox is, of course, that as we denounce the irrelevance of popular interests Continue reading →

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