Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, have you gotten the gifts and arranged the flowers yet? Don’t wait til the last minute to order the flowers, you’ll pay through the nose. As far as gifts go, Luxist has Ten Ways To Say I Love You, which is actually a box of gold-tipped chocolates accompanied by Shakespeare love quotes. If you’re more of a do-it-yourselfer, buy whatever chocolate you like and then head on over to Clusty where you can search for ‘love’ references in all of Shakespeare’s work and pick your favorite. You’d better get started, though – there’s lots of them! Luckily Clusty offers a nice categorized breakdown for your browsing pleasure. Personally I might go with something from Sonnet 153, which we spoke of previously. I like that image of “my mistress’ eyes” being just the thing to rekindle Cupid’s fire.
Month: February 2007
Skeletal Romeo and Juliet
5000 years ago makes it a little too early, and they never did make it to Mantua, but this article about two skeletons found locked in an embrace is loaded with enough Romeo and Juliet references to make it worth a link. An outstanding archaeological find, to be sure, though the whole “wife was probably sacrificed to keep the dead husband company” thing kinda puts a morbid spin on the romantic aspect.
How much of a Hamlet are you?
http://www.jasperfforde.com/hamlet.html I thought this “quiz” was cute enough to link. I’m a type B – way too analytical to be a good Hamlet. I should practice long pauses and just saying whatever comes into my head. Make sure you click on the other “services” at the top of the page. I didn’t realize it at first, but these pages are actually hosted by <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=jasper%20fforde&tag=suchstuff-20&index=books&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325″>Jasper Fforde</a><img src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=suchstuff-20&l=ur2&o=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” />, creator of the Thursday Next series of novels that I’ve blogged about several times. In the fourth book of the series Hamlet is a major character, so I have to assume that these pages were some sort of viral campaign to draw attention to that.
William Shakespeare, Text Messenger
http://www.pauldavidson.net/2007/02/03/william-shakespeare-text-messenger/ I like it. 🙂