Monthly Archives: September 2012

Shakespeare on the Blessings of Ignorance and Impact on Government

Posted on September 10, 2012 by jimmie

 “Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’ nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.” (Julius Caesar, act 1, sc. 2) Comments and Tips for Use. Use the last two lines to cast a friendly and ironic Read More

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Shakespeare on Equivocation, Confusion and Meaning

Posted on September 9, 2012 by jimmie

“We must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us.” (Hamlet, act 5, sc. 1) Comments. Two historians separated in time by millennia said the same thing, A historian must describe things “as they happened” (wie es eigentlich gewesen), according to Ranke (author of the monumental History of the Popes). Much earlier on Herodotus Read More

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Shakespeare on the State of the Union

Posted on September 8, 2012 by jimmie

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 4) Tips for Use.   Apply to place, company, state, nation or organization where you firmly believe that rot outweighs soundness. Not long ago, he who writes here was plying the waters of the Willamette River at the helm, or rather the paddles of Read More

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Shakespeare on the Difference between Democrats and Republicans

Posted on September 7, 2012 by jimmie

“… you weigh equally; a feather will turn the scale.” (Measure For Measure, act 4, sc. 2) Tips for Use.   Perfectly applicable line to the alleged differences between Democrats and Republicans. With the techniques of George Bernay’s (his booklet “Propaganda” should be mandatory reading in any educational institution), every effort is made to maintain the Read More

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Shakespeare on Memories, Nostalgia and Regret

Posted on September 6, 2012 by jimmie

 “When to the session of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste….” (Sonnet 30) Tips for Use.   Unsurpassed words to express that curious mixture of rising memories, nostalgia, melancholy, regret and remorse  Read More

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Shakespeare on Salad Days and Inexperience

Posted on September 5, 2012 by jimmie

“Those were my salad days, When I was green in judgement.” (Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 5) Tips for Use.   Unless you are really old you can often attribute your errors to inexperience and get away with it. Though for many the salad days extend far longer than when the days were salad. A Read More

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Shakespeare’s Insult on Appearance, both Physical and Metaphorical

Posted on September 4, 2012 by jimmie

“…not honour’d with A human shape.” (Tempest act 1, sc. 2) Tips for Use.  Good insult or characterization of someone whom you despise intensely, either physically but, more likely, metaphorically. Or apply self-effacingly to yourself when you show up in dirty attire or similar at a formal event, due to unforeseen circumstances. This and other Read More

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Pre-Orwell Shakespeare on Deceptive Words and Appearances

Posted on September 3, 2012 by jimmie

“Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.” (Merchant of Venice act 3, sc. 2) Tips for Use. When you see the truth and others do not. Or rather, Read More

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Shakespeare on the Instruments of Darkness and their Modus Operandi

Posted on September 1, 2012 by jimmie

“… But ‘t is strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray ‘s In deepest consequence.” (Macbeth act 1, sc. 3) Tips for Use. Good lines to point out and stigmatize the appearance of truth used to hide deep and Read More

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