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QUOTING SHAKESPEARE TO GAIN SEXUAL FAVORS
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She kept babbling
and it was getting tiresome
to listen to her talk
about whatever it was
she was talking about
but luckily I thought of a line
from Shakespeare
about stopping her lips with a kiss
or something to that effect
But I skipped Much ado straight to Romeo
“my two lips are standing here like blushing pilgrims
ready to make things better with a kiss.”
It worked
I leaned over
and met her lips with mine
the result was
a tad more pleasant
than the previous lecture
I think I should consider
Shakespeare my best friend now
His wisdom has proven
Considerably more beneficial
than the advice I get from friends
9/29/95
Chuckling
Laurell K. Hamilton should have been my mentor. A man as a vampie or werewolf would have provided the correct starting points. Good write - slc
fair enough
fair enough
Back in the seventies, the
Back in the seventies, the college campus was still very chauvinist, and women were often treated like "points" for keeping score. Dante said no to this, and because of his advice, I, who looked like a nerd (at beast) and a poached egg (at worst) enjoyed two years with a woman, there, who was sometimes mistaken for a fashion model. Even though the relationship failed--it could not survive outside the artificial enviornment of the campus---the lessons remained.
Starward
Shakespeare did lack for
Shakespeare did lack for moral fiber in more ways than one. Not a bad writer though.
I love his Romeo and Juliet.
I love his Romeo and Juliet. During freshman year in high school, 1973, the a.p. english class put on a reading (not a full performance; no costumes, no memorizations, no rehearsals) of R&J, and because this was the seventies, we reversed the genders of the roles, so that I was Juliet and the woman I most deeply despised in the whole school was Romeo. The tension that placed in our dialogues was terrific. But I learned a lot about Juliet that way (for example, if one notices closely, Juliet seems a little too aggressive and Romeo a little too passive for most of the play). My only other real experience of shakespeare was watching Olivier's film of Richard III. While I loved it, I have since learned that Shakespeare's use of Tudor propganda was detrimental to studies of Richard III and set the scholarship back a couple of hundred years.
Starward
Shakespeare was an artist not
Shakespeare was an artist not a politician or historian so he probably got a lot of facts incorrect.