[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

[Sally Davies]

Me too, though I didn't realise that Shakespeare had (many of) today's
teens so thoroughly nailed. Sluggardized, indeed, though the idleness is
mostly shaped these days by online gaming and so forth.

I've decided to start reading through my Shakespeare Collected Works, but
won't be carrying it around in my bag (here a purse is the small wallet you
keep money and cards in, not the whole bag). Have started with The Tempest,
which is just full of vivid sayings. I love the description of a
shipwrecked young man, "his arms in a sad knot".

Sally D

On Sunday, 7 December 2014, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I understand shapeless idleness.
>
> Love ungartered.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
> On 12/7/2014 2:46 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
>
>> Had dinner with friends, one of whom, unaccountably, had a copy of
>> Two Gentlemen of Verona in her purse:
>>
>> Act I scene 1:
>> Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
>> Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
>>
>> also
>> metamorphosed
>> testerned (I think a testern is a sixpence)
>> coupled
>> ungartered (also garter as a transitive verb)
>> enfranchized
>> passioning
>>
>> I love passion as a verb, actually.
>> -M
>> .
>>
>>
>