Excellant well--You are a fishmonger

Ahh--nothing like Shakespeare to find the sore wound and poke it with a knife. I love how 'mad' Hamlet manges to goad everyone in the prefect exact way to reveal their bad side.

Since we have been reading Hamlet in my lit class, I have had cause to cover the scenes more than I usually would when reading Shakespeare on my own. I have watched several different versions of the film and thus far find the Kenneth Branugh version to be my favorite. The look and feel is right to me when I read the play and see it enacted.

But drama aside--which one might never be able to do with Hamlet--I wanted to bring it up because I feel I have found the single most pathetic and pedantic human being I have ever met.

I was told this person was --shall we say singular?-- in their opinions and mode of address. Very well, I can deal with singular. What I was not expecting to find was someone in whom there is so little of self that they can only throw back words they hear like a parrot does; without any real understanding of the meaning.

I believe that you cannot have an understanding or sympathy with other people in the human race unless you have an understanding of who you are as a person. What you value and held did; where you will and will not go defines you. While there may exist areas in our understanding that as still gray, we have a good understanding of who and what we are. Once we have achieved this we can go out and find friends and companions and learn about other people. But this person was only miming the acts of this understanding.

How strange, horrifying and weird to discover someone who is so flamboyantly empty. Not seeming to be aware of their own vacant state, they loudly pronounced it with boasts of their talents and abundance of conceited self importance. Unfortunately this person's self importance only extents to the realm of those who are so self-abased they're over awed by someone louder than themselves. In any case, the person was so proud of their vapid state that I lost patience with them.

The saddest part of this person's situation is the fact that they are aware of it and still persist in the lifeless path they're in. To be unknowingly dumb is a sad and pitiable case, but to know it and yet do nothing--this deserves nothing save scorn.