Saturday, August 02, 2003

Bwahahahaha... Minying just sent us another link. Here's part of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", or someone's rendition of it... really funny, whether or not you know the story...

"Meanwhile Macbeth and Banquo meet three witches, who are evil, twisted, manipulative ... ow! Stop hitting me! Er. I mean they're lovely people, who just fell into bad company at an early age. They give Macbeth three predictions, by saying "Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis/Cawdor/King." Now this is in fact only two predictions, as he was already Thane of Glamis, so Macbeth should get a refund, but no-one complains. He then starts thinking about being King, and how could he achieve that? Now let's think, boys and girls ....

Macbeth writes to his wife (imaginatively titled "Lady Macbeth"), telling her about the witches. When she hears about the predictions she gets all sorts of ideas, generally involving blood, death, blood, blood, death, and blood. A messenger tells her that Duncan is coming to stay with them, and this puts her into a very strange mood indeed, calling upon spirits to "unsex her here." This is something which should only really be attempted with lots of very sharp knives, a very clean room, lots of people in white coats, and a machine or two going "ping!" at irregular intervals. However, she seems happy to leave it to "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts," and who are we to argue? The rest of her speech gets very odd indeed - she seems basically to be on far too many drugs for her own good."

Oh yes. And my sister bought me a Swatch today ^_^ So apart from the scholarship and study thing, I'm actually feeling very happy.