“How well he's read, to reason against reading!”
Hitting two birds with
one stone, I post this quote for the weekend. I take it from
Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labor's Lost,
which I'm trying to read for the #LRP event.
The
context is very funny. Berowne, one of the king's friends, imparts
his objection against studying with the king for three years with all
its restrictions (including no meeting with any woman). He states so
many reasons and excuses against it that the king at last says the
line above.
Very
much like poets, Shakespeare being one of them, to play with the same
word within a line. It's like saying, “He knows everything against
studying” or something like that. Berowne, I think, will be my
favourite character in the play. He's so smart and fast with his
tongue, and he's funny.
That's
my quote for the weekend. Please share yours.
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