I haven’t posted an: It's Sunday. Let's Talk BOOKS 📚 story
in a while now, but I’d like to start by saying…
Let’s try something different.
How about this, let’s talk about anything about books:
- Your favorite book(s)
- Your favorite author(s)
- Your book you wrote
- What book you still remember 20 years later (or 10 or 5 or 1)
- What book astounded you and why
Stuff like that.
Because the last go round I tried to show you guys what interested me, and why; in the hopes that I would get a response about the books and authors and genres which interested you all. Some, a few of you did. Most did not.
I don’t want to present a lecture series, I want to spark a conversation about the things which, other than my sisters and children, have given me a raison d'être above all others.
Books, or more specifically, stories.
Wild and provoking stories about memorable characters which stand the test of time.
Much Ado About Nothing — William Shakespeare
(believed to have been written during 1588-1589) is such a piece of work.
It is, rather ironically, a tale as old as time as the animated mouse sings in that Disney film; about a subject which is part of the human experience, nothing new. It is however the phrases and the pacing of the storyline which makes one remember lines years after reading them.
https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/much-ado-about-nothing/read/
The requested formal cite for the linked subject matter, the text of the Shakespeare play “Much Ado About Nothing” —
Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing from The Folger Shakespeare. Ed. Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles. Folger Shakespeare Library, [2024/07/14]. https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/much-ado-about-nothing/read/
For me, this is one such line — Page 157, line 35:
Therein do men from children nothing differ.
I had already read a bunch of Shakespeare’s work before the first Star Wars film came out in theaters in 1977. Having never seen any of his work live, living in a less than cultured little corner of the world in southwest Washington state my entire life, seeing those films was a jolt.
Because Yoda sounded to me like someone reading Shakespeare.
Isn’t it crazy, sometimes, how the absurd and fantastical can somehow make a connection to your life when you least expect it?
Your thoughts?
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