[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

[Marion Thompson]

My salad days when I was green in judgement.

And I am often enough onion-eyed.

Marion, a pilgrim
On 12/7/2014 4:30 PM, Sally Davies wrote:
> 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
>>> .
>>>
>>>