Saturday, August 5. William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day:

[Aristus]

"Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
And their most reverent heads dash'd to the walls;
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
While the mad mothers with their howls confus'd
Do breaks the clouds..."

Henry V, Act III, Scene 3, Lines 36-40.

[Kajsa]

1. Perfect, Aristus,

and very moving.

" A picture is worth a thousand words"
yet Will summed it up in a few.

[miss_american_pie]

2. Oh wow

I'm kinda speechless on this one. :hi:

[Aristus]

3. Yeah, I went a little strong on this one today, miss.

I'm just so pissed off about the situation in the ME. Both sides are in the wrong, and the innocent people caught in the middle suffer the most, as usual, for the arrogance and intractability of their leaders.

This quote was more than usually taken out of context. I make it sound like Shakespeare is condemning the violence; but the lines, as spoken by King Henry, refer to what he WILL do if the town of Harfleur doesn't yield to siege. Henry V may be an English national hero (even though he was Welsh), but he wasn't a very nice guy.

[miss_american_pie]

4. Ahhh

It's been ages since I've read that play. You've piqued my curiosity.

[Aristus]

5. You could watch the movie too, if you want. The Branagh film is

superior to the Olivier film, in my opinion. Olivier made the play into pro-war propaganda (which was appropriate, I guess, since Britain was really taking a beating from the Nazis during the Blitz), but Branagh shows the horror, filth, tawdriness, waste and futility of war. It's an amazing film.

[Aristus]

6. Kick for the afternoon.

:kick:

Sheesh! The Bard is losing his audience!

:yoiks:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear Aristus........

This one breaks my heart, truly.......

For it is always the ordinary citizenry that suffers in wartime.....

And the arrogance of the leaders who refuse to move heaven and earth to get a cease-fire going just really frosts me no end......

Or else I weep at the entire waste of precious human life........

Thank you for this, today....... :hug: