Today I was offended by Shakespeare. Referring to a page disguised as a lady, he said:
"And if the boy have not a woman's gift
To rain a shower of commanded tears,
An onion will do well for such a shift,
Which in a napkin being close convey'd
Shall in despite enforce a watery eye."
"To rain a shower of commanded tears"? It cannot be a woman's gift. It would have been too good to be true! :)) Or maybe it is just "too true to be good" and I don't like to admit it.
Tears make us human. And guess what? Emotional tears contain natural substances for pain relief; this substances were not found in tears shed in response to sliced onions. So, yes, an onion will do well, but it is not the same thing, Mr. Shakespeare!
As I said, tears make us human. And so does laughter, so let's not forget that the man who offended me today is the one who wrote "long boring plays in which every single major character, by the end of the play, had either gone nuts, died or gone nuts and then died".
4 comments:
if you had an infinite number of
monkeys sitting at an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite
number of years typing at random then it could be accepted as a
probability that one would eventually type the entire works of
Shakespeare !
Yes, but to get the source code to Microsoft Windows, you need to add more monkeys!
the more monkey you add, the more bugs windows will have ... and this is a real fact today but not a supposition.
Oohh dear lord people. =)
These hypothetical scenarios are completely unrealistic. I think such metaphysical though games lead no where constructive.
What you really need to do is visit the company I work at. We have 50 monkeys working 40 hours a week, doing random stuff. And there in fact is an accepted probability that eventually something useful will get done.
Hmmm... I suppose that makes me a monkey. =)
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