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- From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
- Subject: The Bard takes another hit
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.185503.26517@netcom.com>
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- References: <1e8hvdINN8er@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:55:03 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1e8hvdINN8er@agate.berkeley.edu> Curtis Yarvin writes:
-
- >For those of you without the requisite backing in Italian we provide
- >a quick translation:
- > [ ... ]
- > Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Where the fuck, eh?
-
- I don't know if this is a Peeve, exactly, but it grates my dendrites
- every time I hear it. There is a play by a Mr. Shakespeare called
- "Romeo and Juliet" which has had a pretty good run since it opened
- a few seasons back. In this play there is a scene where Juliet
- delivers a line similar to the one quoted above. When the play is
- performed by amateurs (which is to say, 94% of the time), the lady
- playing Juliet may adopt a contemplative, searching expression as she
- scans the horizon for signs of the elusive Romeo. The audience, of
- course, knows exactly where he is, and wonders why she doesn't have
- him paged or something.
-
- The problem is that she doesn't particularly care *where* he is, and
- she's not asking. What she says is:
- "Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
- which is a different question, and doesn't have any commas, see?
- "Wherefore" doesn't mean "where", it means "why". Juliet is bummed
- because all the bitching, moaning, and killing between the two
- families has put Romeo's name on the shitlist, and if he weren't
- called "Romeo", but rather "Herb" or "Curtis", she wouldn't have all
- this aggravation.
-
- Peeve: Nits which will never heal because they're always being picked.
-
- --
- Rick Gordon | "She Broke My Heart So I Busted Her Jaw"
- rickg@netcom.com | --- One of those country songs you never hear anymore
-