Thursday, March 13, 2008
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Omen
I am sitting in my office. It is 9:45 or so on a Thursday, the last day before a long spring break. When I opened the double doors to my office, the little Shakespeare doll fell off the shelf on the bookcase behind the door and broke. A severed Shakespeare leg and foot resulted. I have thrown it away. Being an English professor, I sense this is a symbol. Of what?
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Did you say, "Now he is just like all the other one-legged poets"? Are you sure you weren't dancing in there?
Oh my!... that does seem rather ominous...
... are you teaching a Shakespeare course this semester?
Maybe that means the next set of papers is going to be terrible.
(That's how I'm feeling at the moment, my students turn in their major research paper about the Globe Theater tomorrow, and I have this sense of foreboding that seems to permeate all that I am doing today... just knowing they're going to turn in research papers that will make me want to cry...)
Makes me think of this from Henry VIII:
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness;And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting:I shall fall like a bright exhalation in the evening,And no man see me more.(Act 3 Scene 2)Maybe the bad omen isn't for you...maybe it's a sign of the fall of something negative in your life!^^ Ugh, I hate how my comment's format changed after I posted it. Annoying.
Shakespeare was not only a playwright, but an actor- a representation of Shakespeare breaking a leg isn't a bad omen, it's good luck!
Totally.
@bronze_anodyne - What a great point! I hadn't thought of that!
Hmm... Did you have some big goal to accomplish over the break? Maybe this was just the Bard's way of encouraging you to "break a leg."