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Branka Babic

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2/11/2013 2:04:06 AM
I do not blame nowadays kids Diane. If their professors know how to introduce Shakespeare to them, I am sure in their further life, they won't add as much praise to folly as they do :(.

Happy to know that here breaths one Shakespearean more. Friend, thanks for stopping by :).



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Roger Macdivitt .

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2/11/2013 9:38:28 AM

A great subject Branka.

I bring you a wonderful speech from Richard III.

This comes to you with a link (at the end of speech) to a great discovery, take a look.

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From Richard II

King Richard speaks:

No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let’s choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke’s,
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison’d by their wives: some sleeping kill’d;
All murder’d: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be fear’d and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humor’d thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence: throw away respect,
Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,
For you have but mistook me all this while:
I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
How can you say to me, I am a king?

The link:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882

Roger

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Branka Babic

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2/11/2013 9:44:43 AM
Thank you Sir! Going to read.
He is always a NEW REVELATION!!!
What a genius!!!!

Love you Roger :)!

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Roger Macdivitt .

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2/11/2013 9:49:08 AM

Branka,

I would find it difficult to sit through a whole Shakespear play.

Even as an Englishman I would find the words hard to follow because there are so many words and not all of the stories are familiar to me, however, given time to listen or read a speech or poem I love the quality of the words, the power, the tenderness the craft and the descriptiveness. Nobody, worldwide, comes close to his work. What would he write of today if he were here?

Can you imagine what he might have said to portray the shooting of Kennedy or the Russian revolution? What would he have written about Hitler or Bin Laden. Fascinating thought?

Roger

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Branka Babic

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2/11/2013 9:58:01 AM
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Branka,

I would find it difficult to sit through a whole Shakespear play.

Even as an Englishman I would find the words hard to follow because there are so many words and not all of the stories are familiar to me, however, given time to listen or read a speech or poem I love the quality of the words, the power, the tenderness the craft and the descriptiveness. Nobody, worldwide, comes close to his work. What would he write of today if he were here?

Can you imagine what he might have said to portray the shooting of Kennedy or the Russian revolution? What would he have written about Hitler or Bin Laden. Fascinating thought?

Roger



Roger,

Surely for over 10 years if no more, I was touching him sporadically.
Last night, trying to understand a true undoubted goodness in all what is (however this may sound, taken out of full context), at once, this happened.

S H A K E S P E A R E !!!!!!!!!!

OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a few appointments now, and can't wait to be back, to tell you WHAT HE HAS DONE!!!!!!!!!! Believe me, I am as excited as almost speechless, and I just hope to calm my wholeness, which is like an ocean under a storm of beauty :). Imagine it!!! Storm of beauty!!! LOL, weather rudeness or beauty, best quantity would be said as ENOUGH :).

He helped me to cut off one of most specific and difficult Gordian knots.



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