Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Excellent Foppery   [Mark Steyn]

A reader reminds us that William Shakespeare, longtime columnist of The Stratford-on-Avon Herald, has some thoughts on Mark Sanford's recent Twittering:

This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! 

~Shakespeare (Edmund, in Lear)

07/01 08:54 AMShare