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Saturday was GORGEOUS, by the way, and The Boy and I had big fun out at Shakespeare's Birthday party. It was sort of amazing to walk around the village and tour the Curtain Theatre (small scale model of traditional Elizabethan Theatre - not exactly the Globe, but close) and realize it was all one rich geek's private estate ( Richard Garriott of Ultima and shooting off to space fame). *
In addition to running into friends and enjoying the day we got to play giant chess (He's a much better player than I am but I somehow scraped out a win - age and treachery? Just a good poker face), act out the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet as Karaoke, and, yes, take part in the Sonnet-a-thon wherein all 154 sonnets were read aloud in less than three hours! My favorite reader managed to make Ska work in the moment! When it rolled around to our slot about an hour in I got to read Sonnet 58 to a crowd of fifty or sixty. Big fun!
SONNET 58
That god forbid that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!
O, let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison'd absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each cheque,
Without accusing you of injury.
Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you yourself may privilege your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;
Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.
*made odder since we actually have a couple of mutual friends and I was at Britannia Manor several times many, many years ago, including Halloween 1989 and 1990! In many ways Austin is a pretty small town but it's still strange to know Michael and Susan Dell, to see Matthew McBongoes (tm Meyerlemon) in Central Market, and sit around with Joe Ely while we're both having our oil changed...
In addition to running into friends and enjoying the day we got to play giant chess (He's a much better player than I am but I somehow scraped out a win - age and treachery? Just a good poker face), act out the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet as Karaoke, and, yes, take part in the Sonnet-a-thon wherein all 154 sonnets were read aloud in less than three hours! My favorite reader managed to make Ska work in the moment! When it rolled around to our slot about an hour in I got to read Sonnet 58 to a crowd of fifty or sixty. Big fun!
SONNET 58
That god forbid that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!
O, let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison'd absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each cheque,
Without accusing you of injury.
Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you yourself may privilege your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;
Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.
*made odder since we actually have a couple of mutual friends and I was at Britannia Manor several times many, many years ago, including Halloween 1989 and 1990! In many ways Austin is a pretty small town but it's still strange to know Michael and Susan Dell, to see Matthew McBongoes (tm Meyerlemon) in Central Market, and sit around with Joe Ely while we're both having our oil changed...