Tuesday, June 26, 2007

"Very Like a Whale"

My anxiety dream took a new form the other night:

1) I am in a Shakespeare play.

2) I cannot remember my lines.

3) I cannot find my lines in any copy of the play available.

4) The play is Hamlet and I am playing . . . Polonius.

Not even the Ghost? Or Claudius? I suppose it's better than an "attendant lord," but not much.

C'mon, subconscious--how about Falstaff?

P.S. "How about Andy Devine as Falstaff?"

Shudder.

2 comments:

Harry said...

I'll steer away from interpreting that dream... but I do love the inside joke in the post title. Hat's off, Mr. Little!

Eric Little said...

Now that quotation from Polonius I could remember!