Mid-year's resolution

Memorize new soliloquy/speech from Shakespeare every month (or week, since a short one I can learn within a few minutes, after all). The goal being to know at least one from every play, and in so doing, study its meaning and context, and this shall be my humbly adopted scripture.

In other memorization news, I am up to Samarium (62) on the Periodic Table. Rolling along quite well.

To get things kickstarted, I shall not count the sparrow speech I just memorized from Hamlet this week (I know plenty from Hamlet already), and will use Caliban's speech, as Sir Kenneth so beautifully recited last night. Duh.

Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand tangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.

Conscious subconscious

Every time I see young Sir Kenneth, I think of Ewan, so of course, the moment he shows up while I watch Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, my ubuli quivered with flashbacks of delight. I do so love him. Checking my records, I can't believe I've loved him for 13 years now, ever since The Phantom Menace. Oh Jebus, that was an age ago.

Ewan, my sweet, perfect, proper Scottish sweetheart, never change.

PS: Remember "Up his ass with a meter ruler." That's a good one.