On Thursday was Shakespeare night and we read the Merchant of Venice. Here are the highlights:
The character Shylock lends money to a merchant, and if he can't pay it back in time, Shylock gets to take a pound of the merchant's flesh. The whole time we were reading it, Peggy was making a big deal about how the bones and the blood count too, but the rest of us were saying that WASN'T flesh, and as it turned out this was the argument that saved the merchant's life in the end, so we got to say HA to Peggy and she insisted in her side by saying she had interpreted it as Shylock meant it.
There, of course, were some funny phrases, the most amusing of which was along the lines of "the bagpipes make them so sad that they pee their pants" which we all thought was quite ridiculous. Who knows what Shakespeare really meant. Maybe it was a figure of speech that has since fallen out of use.
My friend from Japanese class stopped by for a little bit too.
Maybe next time, we should do Shakespeare at a park or coffee shop. The first one we did was at Thunderbird, but we felt maybe we were disturbing other patrons.
I like knee socks. This blog has nothing to do with knee socks, except when it does. This was mangapasta from 2009-2013. It's been archived now... sorta?
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com·ment [kom-ent]
noun
1. a remark, observation, or criticism
4. a note in explanation, expansion, or criticism of a passage in a book, article, or the like; annotation.
5. explanatory or critical matter added to a text.
(from dictionary.com)