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What is your answer to ol' Bill Shake's famous question?

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Posted - August 9, 2016

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    Who is Ole Bill Shakes?

      August 9, 2016 4:17 PM MDT
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  • The infamous hack, William Shakespeare.  "To be or not to be..."

      August 9, 2016 4:26 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    Which one?  If you read any Shakespeare (I have read VERY little), you will soon realize he has so many wonderful quotes.

    My favorite?  That Hamlet soliloquy.  I love that one.  Or was that Mac Beth?  You know; that guy who started the Hamburger Chain?    Mac Beth was his best work to me.  Filled with thrilling soliloquies.  .

    She should have died hereafter.
    There would have been a time for such a word.
    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
    To the last syllable of recorded time.
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle.
    Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

    These words are uttered by Macbeth after he hears of Lady Macbeth’s death, in Act 5, scene 5, lines 16–27. Given the great love between them, his response is oddly muted, but it segues quickly into a speech of such pessimism and despair—one of the most famous speeches in all of Shakespeare—that the audience realizes how completely his wife’s passing and the ruin of his power have undone Macbeth. His speech insists that there is no meaning or purpose in life. Rather, life “is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.”

    and then there is this one... you probably mean this one.  

    and I must say, Mel Gibson did a great job.  GO MEL. You are talented, albeit batshit crazy.

      August 9, 2016 4:28 PM MDT
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