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Observations of a BFG, with help from the Bard.
On NGG attitudes toward self-improvement (from "King John" act iv. sc.
2):
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
On the company kept by NGG's (from "Julius Caesar" act i. sc. 2):
Let me have men about me, that are fat;
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights;
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
On NGG modesty (from "Antony and Cleopatra" act ii. sc. 2):
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
On the NGG wardrobe (from "King Lear" act iv. sc. 6):
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
On NGG expressiveness (also from "King Lear" act v. sc. 3):
Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in a woman.
On NGG web pages (from "Romeo and Juliet" act ii. sc. 4):
I am the very pink of courtesy.
On NGG tall tales about Doc Martens (from "Hamlet" act i. sc. 5):
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood;
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres;
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful Porcupine.
On NGG secret feelings for BFGs (also from "Hamlet" act ii. sc. 2):
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason!
how infinite in facilities! in form and moving, how express
and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension,
how like a God!
(Note from the NGG. This is where Mark Lost.)
And finally, on NGG forbearance toward BFGs (from "Othello" act iv.
sc. 2):
And put in every honest hand a whip,
To lash the rascal naked through the world.
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