Friday, March 20, 2009

Wonderful...

"To those who cry out against romance I would say--you are romance. You are the lost prince herding obscurely among the swine. The romance of your spirit is the most wonderful of stories."

--A.E. in The Candle of Vision

6 comments:

  1. hmm, insightful. those who hate passion are passionate about hating it, and those who wish to be alone wish others to be alone as well .. . strange how humanity works.

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  2. Yes,something akin to "Methinks the lady doth protest too much"... :-)

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  3. Hahaha, are you two talking about me?
    Oh dear...

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  4. I think that this quote could be about any one of us, being the dramatis personae that we are! :-)

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  5. Hahaha, very true.
    As Kate says, in Taming of the Shrew:
    "Am I to dance barefoot at my sister's wedding? Is my fate to lead apes in hell?"
    [popular superstitions of the time for old maids]
    hahaha

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  6. Yes, that's a great one! My daughter Emilie played Kate in a college production here two years ago. She wasn't completely insulted when her brother and I told her that it was typecasting... :-) I love Kate's last lines in the play: "...And place your hand below your husband's foot: in token of which duty, if he please, my hand is ready: may it do him ease."

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