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helwen"Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments..../ Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/ Within his bending sickle's compass come/ Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks/ But bears it out even to the edge of doom./ ...." Sonnet 116, Wm. Shakespeare
Quote picked up from a commenter on today's 9 Chickweed Lane. One might not expect Shakespeare to be quoted in regard to a comic strip, but Brooke McEldowney did a whole take on Midsummer's Night Dream in his other strip, Pibgorn, some time ago. New readers would have to go back a few months to get the whole current storyline, but in short: Edda (a ballet dancer but who also plays piano) and Amos (a cellist) are long-time friends and new-ish sweethearts. They broke up for a stupid reason, then get tossed together again by circumstance. He needed a pianist for the competition in Brussels and his pianist got sick (Isobel, who's been trying to catch Amos for a while, mostly because Edda likes him). Things come to a head in Brussels, they talk things out, and then their relationship goes to a whole new level. The viewer sees the result of this in today's strip.
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29 Nov
No riches, nothing
no matter how constant they
may now seem to be
will be as sure and lasting
as the love of true friendship.
***
I know, I know, "friendship"? But friend, family, or lover, none it lasts or is worth having without being friends to some degree. As we read in the papers or online about job loss, environmental losses, people being trampled in shopping sprees (one dead), and the various battles around the world, with all the world in a seeming downward spiral that nevertheless we should try to battle, individually and together, it's good to have a constant star.
Quote picked up from a commenter on today's 9 Chickweed Lane. One might not expect Shakespeare to be quoted in regard to a comic strip, but Brooke McEldowney did a whole take on Midsummer's Night Dream in his other strip, Pibgorn, some time ago. New readers would have to go back a few months to get the whole current storyline, but in short: Edda (a ballet dancer but who also plays piano) and Amos (a cellist) are long-time friends and new-ish sweethearts. They broke up for a stupid reason, then get tossed together again by circumstance. He needed a pianist for the competition in Brussels and his pianist got sick (Isobel, who's been trying to catch Amos for a while, mostly because Edda likes him). Things come to a head in Brussels, they talk things out, and then their relationship goes to a whole new level. The viewer sees the result of this in today's strip.
***
29 Nov
No riches, nothing
no matter how constant they
may now seem to be
will be as sure and lasting
as the love of true friendship.
***
I know, I know, "friendship"? But friend, family, or lover, none it lasts or is worth having without being friends to some degree. As we read in the papers or online about job loss, environmental losses, people being trampled in shopping sprees (one dead), and the various battles around the world, with all the world in a seeming downward spiral that nevertheless we should try to battle, individually and together, it's good to have a constant star.
