As I travelled along Parramatta Road by bus, heading away from the city (Sydney), I happened to pass a "camping shop" that sells all manner of things outdoors: swags, eskys, camping gear and so forth. The shop's sign for their upcoming sale read:
Now is the winter of our discount tents
It made me snort with laughter.
I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
—Albert Einstein.
kinda clever too.
" The essance of reproduction,to feel and re-create that which was felt and impared by the creater,does not exclude- within natural limitations-the assertion of creative power" - Dr. Hugo Goldschmidt.
I wish you the Best for each day, now and always.
Bill
Yes, the reference to King Lear didn't escape me.
Thanx for sharing about the advert CT64. The proprietor of that establishment must have a wry sense of humour.
I liike it, very funny/clever, I bet when Shakespeare wrote Richard the third, he didn't know how it would be used.
Margaret
I've just seen a production of Macbeth. Goodness it's a gruesome play, that's for sure.
Titus Andronicus in a film version conceived and directed by Julie Taymor will have your blood curdle. Shakespeare has never come across so gruesomely until I saw that film.
Wow, splendid recommendation, I'll check it out. I don't know Titus Andronicus at all, must read it.
That sounds good CD, time to get my blood curdled.
Margaret
That's my CT...ever the snorterOriginally Posted by Contratrombone64
*hugs* @ Stephen
It's possible that whomever wrote that may have heard of something similar (or they genuinely came up with it of their own volition). Over a decade ago, a friend of mine wrote from the UK and amongst many other things, told of an amusing sign he'd seen in a shop window in Stratford-Upon-Avon during an RSC season of King Lear. Like your encounter CT, it was a camping/sportsgood shop and the sign read:
"Now is the discount of our winter tents."
It made it into the local newspaper apparently.
Ah yes, Julie Taymor's "Titus" .... You have to shake yourself quite a few times during it to remind yourself that it's the Bard, very gruesome realisation and very well cast.
Music is made to transform the states of the soul, for an hour or an instant (J. Alain)
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