Juliets tomb...

Falstaff

MythicaL

Whoa that's cool... I'm guessing that's in Verona?

Drakon

Cool pic, Jeff

Falstaff

yes...for all it was worth...I was exhausted.

danjufo

the sign is in English first

What does the sign say my poor eyes can't quite work it out?

Zardon

good photo jeff, also I like your signature, didnt know you liked warhammer 40k, awesome game!

Zardon

its taken from shakespeare's romeo and juliet - last embrace with the native language below it. Verona, Italy 15th Century.


Romeo: My love, my wife. Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath has had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou are not conquered! Beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks. And death's pale flag is not advanced there. Dear Juliet, why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe that insubstantial death is amorous? And that lean abhorred monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour? O here; o here will I set up my everlasting rest, and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And lips, o you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss.

danjufo

Thanks Zardon. i always enjoy shakespeare, i think i like the way my simple mind can't just absorb what he means i have to think about it, which emphasizes every word in my head.

Zardon

As a kid I hated shakespeare probably because it was forced down my throat in school for studies, but as ive gotten older ive started to appreciate his work.

Falstaff

I have always enjoyed Shakespeare....
but I find Henry the V to be the most inspiring and of course...
The Taming of the Shrew..

Drakon

I hate when they do that. That always makes me much less interested in the author.

Falstaff

Shakespeare is an acquired taste to be sure, but to listen to someone read the prose back to you or see the play makes the words come alive, and the Bard himself was a real character for sure, his life is controversial and he was all that he put into his work, and yet an enigma...we know the body of his work and perhaps his body but we will never know his mind, but like all great artists and writers we see into his soul through the lense or window of his own work....
much like yours as well Drakon...
do not be dismayed.....
I coudnt stand Geoffrey Chaucer either
(still dont)

Stop It

Don't remind me, it put me off shakespeare for a good long time, only now I have been adble to read, examine and understand his works in a proper non force-fed institutionalised way, nice picture fallang_jeff, I honestly didnt know of its existance