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EDMUND
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; [cont.]
— Oct 30, 2026 12:15AM
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; [cont.]
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Jonathan O'Neill
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FOOL
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.”
KENT
This is nothing, fool.
FOOL
Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer, you gave me nothing for't
— Nov 01, 2026 03:01AM
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.”
KENT
This is nothing, fool.
FOOL
Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer, you gave me nothing for't
Jonathan O'Neill
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Pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy. My cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o'Bedlam. — O, these eclipses do portend these divisions. Fa, sol, la, mi.
Edmund sings, as if unaware of Edgar's approach, in order the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th notes of the Elizabethan scale (the Old Solfege syllables), a discordant motto, appropriate to his character...[cont.]
— Oct 30, 2026 04:16AM
Edmund sings, as if unaware of Edgar's approach, in order the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th notes of the Elizabethan scale (the Old Solfege syllables), a discordant motto, appropriate to his character...[cont.]
Jonathan O'Neill
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Tell me, my daughters...
Which of you shall we say doth love us most,
That we our largest bounty may extend
Where nature doth with merit challenge.
Me displaying faux authority at the dinner table, deciding who will get the largest slice of apple crumble for dessert.
— Oct 22, 2026 09:10PM
Which of you shall we say doth love us most,
That we our largest bounty may extend
Where nature doth with merit challenge.
Me displaying faux authority at the dinner table, deciding who will get the largest slice of apple crumble for dessert.
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Oct 30, 2026 12:17AM
…and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.
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Very cheerful, Jon. A ray of sunshine you have become :D Keep them coming sir!
Vanitha wrote: "Very cheerful, Jon. A ray of sunshine you have become :D Keep them coming sir!"Isn't it charming! 😁
You can empathise with Edmund throughout the earliest parts of the play, I think. The "base", "inferior" bastard brother. The way Gloucester speaks about him, "knave", "whoreson" etc. Disrespecting his mother, joking about their being sport in his making. He will of course prove to be completely cold and ruthless but his story as the innocent victim to the aristocratic customs of the times, and his rebellion against that, is compelling.
Oh, they'll keep coming, don't you worry! You might regret saying that! 😂
Jonathan wrote: "Vanitha wrote: "Very cheerful, Jon. A ray of sunshine you have become :D Keep them coming sir!"Isn't it charming! 😁
You can empathise with Edmund throughout the earliest parts of the play, I thin..."
Yes, one will empathise with him. He has genuine reasons to resent the world, it's just that he feels so entitled that he completely rejects any sense of moral responsibility. His attempt to break free from the circumstances of his birth ultimately becomes his undoing.
Hahaha... I have quite a high threshold for the darkness in human nature, so bring it on, sir!