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Post by Pesterguest on Jan 10, 2004 0:48:40 GMT -5
A Memento mori is like a human skull, or something that the monks in mediaeval times kept in their monasteries to remind them "that they will die". I suppose that would explain why Hamlet just had a human skull lying around to talk to. He obviously remembered that he would die too much. |
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Post by ice on Jan 11, 2004 0:28:56 GMT -5
Nobody I know in The Real World™ has read ASoUE...or maybe they have, and I haven't asked. I say "Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity" on occasion and once suggested it while playing basketball in gym class as an alternative to "H-O-R-S-E". Much more fun. Also I often make references to the series (to see if anybody has read it) to faces of  . My school put on a production of Guys & Dolls Jr. last spring and I handled the lights, so I was given a script. There was a song entitled "If I Were A Bell," which made no sense when decoded. |
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Post by Celinra on Jan 12, 2004 16:24:32 GMT -5
I suppose that would explain why Hamlet just had a human skull lying around to talk to. He obviously remembered that he would die too much. He didn't just have a skull lying around. In the scene where he holds the skull, he's at a graveyard, and the person who works there is digging up that grave to put someone else in it. Hamlet asks who used to be there, and he finds out it's Yorick, the court jester who was friends with him when he was little, and he replies, "Alas, poor Yorick... I knew him, Horatio." (Horatio is his best friend who is with him in this scene) Anyways, on topic, I work at a library, so I say "The world is quiet here" when I walk in. I have a commonplace book, and I write down what all the different codes are (I plan to teach them to my friends so we can communicate through them). |
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