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Unread 06-15-2019, 03:09 AM
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Hi Annie,

I love this line - "one can never have too many reasons for doing what is so laborious." Thank you! How very Yeatsian. Pascal once wrote, "Please excuse this long letter, I didn't have the time to make it short."
Antony and Cleopatra. What a tremendous play that is.
I am glad to hear the barriers that lay before you have melted away or resolved themselves. Default for me tends to mean European and male and heterosexual, and I do have to watch out for that. Interesting concept, default.

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John
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Into a dew, my dear, into a dew.
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Wherever Annie goes, I want to go, too; there love's labor is not lost : )
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And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

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Aha! I very dare you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt4yq8o1qpI
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I have long been aware that much of what I do and feel doesn't make sense to others.

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Heigh-ho. Tits out, and pass the worm.
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Cleopatra.

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Julie, that was a reference back to John's post #2. He saw my Cassius and raised me a clown - the clown in Antony and Cleopatra who brings on the basket of snakes in Act V.

Cleopatra asks him "Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there/That kills and pains not?" and after a lot of soul-detroying banter (he is one of The Bard's less successful clowns) he buggers off, leaving her with the basket and his wish that she should have "all joy of the worm".

I mentioned it to Matt in post #5 when I questioned the contents of his cookie-basket.

And then, when it became apparent, in post #10, that I had failed (as Cleopatra did when she tried to be too clever) I knew there was but one way (Henry V, II, 3) and applied the asp to my bosom (as it were...)

For you, Julie, the whole truth. With love.


And - while I was concocting that confession, John has stepped in with the answer in a single word. What a pity Shakespeare never had a character called Prolix, eh? (and yes, I did check, just in case.)
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Set forth in your pursuit. My kind An(n)tonio,
I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks, and ever thanks. And oft good turns
Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.

And thanks to John, too, of course, but Ann saved me a whole lot of Googlin'.
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