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user-inactivated  ·  3774 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fourth Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately

Neat thing about that passage, which is not even my favorite from the play but is certainly beautiful (esp. in person) -- is that I actually cut it off mid-paragraph, and it's not a soliloquy even though it reads like one. Both somewhat odd choices I think. And it's from a5s2, which has itself a famous soliloquy earlier ... "So sweet was ne'er so fatal"

EDIT: what I mean by 'reads like one' is that if you replaced a couple of words it could easily come off as a plea to the audience or to god not to judge him overharshly.