March 31, 2005
I believe the first scene of Othello today was more than enough to offend the fundamentalists in my class. Three gasping highlights:
”...Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is topping your white ewe.”
“Because we come to
do you service and you think we are ruffians, you’ll
have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;
you’ll have your nephews neigh to you; you’ll have
coursers for cousins and gennets for germans”
and, of course,”...I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”
Ahh….the Bible and Shakespeare. Nothing like them to offend the decent and the sophisticated among us.
Finally, an IM commenter says that the Christian position on Shiavo is (was) simple: She must be kept alive because we know that God miraculously heals sometimes. The Gospel examples of Jesus healing make it clear that people with terminal diseases are sometimes healed by God. Therefore, we must do all we can to keep everyone alive in hopes of healing. Interesting.
