brave... or stupid...?

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"...your words and performances are no kin together."
-- William Shakespeare (Othello)


Of all Shakespeare's villains, Iago seems to be the most complete and sadistic, with no greater motive than wounded pride for his wickedness. But the character most discussed by critics continues to be Othello. Is he an honorable, tragic hero who is ennobled by the unsuspecting confidence he places in his advisor, Iago? Or is he nothing more than a vulnerable, murderous and tragic fool? Othello himself recognizes this extraordinary paradox when, at the end of the play, he describes himself as "an honourable murderer"; as "one that loved not wisely but too well."


from an e-mail received:

"I'd still like you to come Saturday night.
Confirm preferably via text message by mid-day
tomorrow. I'll be picking up the tickets then."



i suppose i really don't know any better... i'm knowingly walking into a Shakesperean tragedy, and i'm not just talking about attending the performance... what is it that i'm trying to prove? to who?

that i'm better? because, despite not being able to stand the thought of him right now, i would still go out with him? that i'm so "mature" and so much a "bigger" person as to be able to forgive and move on?




"I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!"


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Current mood: awake
Current music: Usher -- U Don't Have to Call