Love it! A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Sometimes it ain't what it's called but what it is that matters...
a lil folk lore about 'A rose..." A story, much favoured by tour guides, and as such highly suspect, is that in this line Shakespeare was also making a joke at the expense of the Rose Theatre. The Rose was a local rival to his Globe Theatre and is reputed to have had less than effective sanitary arrangements. The story goes that this was a coy joke about the smell. This certainly has the whiff of folk etymology about it, but it might just be true.
Mr. Heinlein has a sequence about this in 'Stranger in a Strange Land.' He asserts that Government Endowment of the Arts is Bunk. If an artist can't make you want to buy his stuff, he's not an artist.
'A government-supported artist is an incompetant whore!' R.A.H
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you tell them how it is!
Love it! A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Sometimes it ain't what it's called but what it is that matters...
a lil folk lore about 'A rose..."
A story, much favoured by tour guides, and as such highly suspect, is that in this line Shakespeare was also making a joke at the expense of the Rose Theatre. The Rose was a local rival to his Globe Theatre and is reputed to have had less than effective sanitary arrangements. The story goes that this was a coy joke about the smell. This certainly has the whiff of folk etymology about it, but it might just be true.
Mr. Heinlein has a sequence about this in 'Stranger in a Strange Land.' He asserts that Government Endowment of the Arts is Bunk. If an artist can't make you want to buy his stuff, he's not an artist.
'A government-supported artist is an incompetant whore!' R.A.H
I'm stealing this. Yes I am.
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