[original: "exit, pursued by bear"]

[wanderlight]

Something MADE OF AWESOME has recently happened to me. But since I have no time, I'll leave you with that cryptic statement, a rain check for a telling at a later date, and a copy of the article I wrote for the latest issue of the school paper.

Comments

[wanderlight]

Well I just finished telling bruadar I'd marry her, but for you, Anthony, I am up for polygamy! :DD

*adds Tom Stoppard to List of Things to Read, esp. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead although she's a bit angry at Hamlet in general right now after having stayed up till 3am finishing a paper on the graveyard scene in V:I as a microcosm for the entire play ...*

[anthon1]

:DDDDDDD (Given that this comes on the same day as I spot what is currently my most recent Wallpost, it's becoming clear to me that this must be the right time of year for Aquarii, or something like that... :P:D)

You should do. :D And that sounds like a really rather awesome theory to muck around with, you know. Although maybe 3am was not the best time to do so, I admit...

I had a really weird idea this morning for a dream involving Ophelia played by Sylvia Plath, but I got sidetracked by finding an awesome sociopolitical realpolitik justification for Claudius' murder of Hamlet I, and have now been even further sidetracked by the idea that maybe the reason Hamlet and Ophelia both went mad was that Hamlet gave her syphilis...

... I'm going to a very special hell.

[wanderlight]

Ooh: Ophelia played by Virginia Woolf, more fitting type of suicide. Drowning Ophelia, and all that. Sociopolitical realpolitik justification, though? May I hear?

and have now been even further sidetracked by the idea that maybe the reason Hamlet and Ophelia both went mad was that Hamlet gave her syphilis...

:D :D :D MAY I JOIN YOU IN THE SPECIAL HELL? If you're there, it will no doubt be The Place To Be. *nods*

[anthon1]

Ooh. That could be fun. :D We still need the rest of the cast, though. Hmm...

Sociopolitical realpolitik justification runs something like this: Old Hamlet had been wanting a rematch of twenty or thirty years before (whichever it was) with Young Fortinbras to settle the matter man to man, despite being a couple of decades older than Young Fort and really rather out of shape these days. He proved intractable; it was for the good of the kingdom, and there was no other option left...

Quite how it works I'm not sure. Probably better if Young Fort suggested it, I think, but privately, if that would work; Polonius could know, perhaps, although then again I'm not sure how much difference the challenge being public knowledge would necessarily make...

:D :D :D It would be a bit like the Islands of Awesome Subversives in Brave New World, only with metaphysics and better pryotechnics. :D