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Jan. 5th, 2013 at 5:07 PM
(Shakespeare, "Taming of the Shrew")
How very true...
And here's good advice, I like it better than Polonius' speech to Hamlet...
"Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life’s key: be check’d for silence,
But never tax’d for speech."
(Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well")
Comments
giddy, eh? Spinning too fast - say, a wee over 1000 mph? ;)
His friend said: "Well, obviously, because it just looks as if the sun is going around the earth."
To which the philosopher replied: "Well, what would it look like if it had looked as if the earth were rotating?"
Re: giddy, eh? Spinning too fast - say, a wee over 1000 mph? ;)
Re: tangential?
I rather like tangents, m'self - Shakespeare may have had more than one meaning in mind, but I rather think he'd not call Wittgenstein's quote tangential - multiplicity of meaning, yes.
But I could be wrong.
Re: tangential?
KATHARINA
'He that is giddy thinks the world turns round:'
I pray you, tell me what you meant by that.
Widow
Your husband, being troubled with a shrew,
Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe:
And now you know my meaning,
KATHARINA
A very mean meaning.
Widow
Right, I mean you.