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I have a story for this quote source.\u00a0 In the summer of 1972 I was attending summer session at my high school.\u00a0 Being a hopeless nerd, I wanted to skip a grade in math so I was taking Geometry in the summer to allow me to go on to Trigonometry and Analysis in September.\u00a0 This was an all-boys Catholic High School and it was even worse than it sounds.\u00a0 But in summer school they had some girls from the local \u201csister schools\u201d and so things were actually a little better than during the regular year.\u00a0 There was a girl in the class who liked theater and she proposed a trip to Manhattan to see Shakespeare in the Park (Central Park).\u00a0 Now she probably had no romantic intentions but I was a high school boy so I was willing to take the chance.\u00a0 Anyway, Shakespeare in the Park involved waiting in line on the Great Lawn (which was a shambles back then and hardly a lawn in anything but a geographic sense) for hours while eating a picnic lunch and talking to a rather pretty girl.\u00a0 What\u2019s not to like?\u00a0 The park was overrun with aging dirty hippies selling incense and drug paraphernalia which even to my younger, less-conservative self felt creepy.\u00a0 But it seemed like a fun day at the time.\u00a0 When the show began after sunset I learned that the play was King Lear and the name of the actor playing the title role was James Earl Jones.\u00a0 The name was vaguely familiar (possibly from Dr. Strangelove) and I was interested to see how this spectacle would turn out.\u00a0 Jones did not disappoint.\u00a0 He threw everything but the kitchen sink into his Lear.\u00a0 He stuttered, roared and hissed at his tormentors and cried and moaned through his torment.\u00a0 And during the storm scene the weather proved cooperative.\u00a0 There were several very real cracks of thunder and even a few lightning flashes.\u00a0 Very cool indeed.\u00a0 And after the show we enjoyed the extra thrill of leaving Central Park late at night while somehow avoiding the very real threat of being robbed or worse.\u00a0 Of course, nothing ever panned out with the girl but nothing ventured, nothing gained as they say.\u00a0 And that\u2019s the only time I\u2019ve ever seen or read the play King Lear.\u00a0 But it did leave an impression. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Shakespeare, King Lear Act 5 Scene 3<\/em><\/p>\n

Re-enter KING LEAR, with CORDELIA dead in his arms; EDGAR, Captain, and others following<\/em><\/p>\n

KING LEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:
\nHad I your tongues and eyes, I’ld use them so
\nThat heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone for ever!
\nI know when one is dead, and when one lives;
\nShe’s dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass;
\nIf that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
\nWhy, then she lives.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

KING LEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all!
\nI might have saved her; now she’s gone for ever!
\nCordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha!
\nWhat is’t thou say’st? Her voice was ever soft,
\nGentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
\nI kill’d the slave that was a-hanging thee.<\/p>\n

Captain<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Tis true, my lords, he did.<\/p>\n

KING LEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did I not, fellow?
\nI have seen the day, with my good biting falchion
\nI would have made them skip: I am old now,
\nAnd these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?
\nMine eyes are not o’ the best: I’ll tell you straight.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

KING LEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

And my poor fool is hang’d! No, no, no life!
\nWhy should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
\nAnd thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more,
\nNever, never, never, never, never!
\nPray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.
\nDo you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,
\nLook there, look there!<\/p>\n

Dies<\/em><\/p>\n

EDGAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

He faints! My lord, my lord!<\/p>\n

KENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Break, heart; I prithee, break!<\/p>\n

EDGAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Look up, my lord.<\/p>\n

KENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much
\nThat would upon the rack of this tough world
\nStretch him out longer.<\/p>\n

EDGAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

He is gone, indeed.<\/p>\n

KENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The wonder is, he hath endured so long:
\nHe but usurp’d his life.<\/p>\n

ALBANY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bear them from hence. Our present business
\nIs general woe.<\/p>\n

To KENT and EDGAR<\/em><\/p>\n

Friends of my soul, you twain
\nRule in this realm, and the gored state sustain.<\/p>\n

KENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;
\nMy master calls me, I must not say no.<\/p>\n

ALBANY<\/strong><\/p>\n

The weight of this sad time we must obey;
\nSpeak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
\nThe oldest hath borne most: we that are young
\nShall never see so much, nor live so long.<\/p>\n

Exeunt, with a dead march<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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