Saturday, November 19, 2011

Shakespeare at Work

While tending to the duties of "computer lab assistant", I've been passing the time while reading the sonnets of Shakespeare. Sonnet 116 was particularly good:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
    If this be error and upon me proved,
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.


True love is unwavering and constant; 'it is an ever-fixed mark'. As beauty and youth fade, love does not; 'Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks'. Love shall withstand the testaments of time; 'Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks'.

These are the joys of working in the computer lab :)

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