Sitting at a movie theatre, watching the new-release version of some movie I really wanted to see, I feel the sudden urge to empty the bucket. What would most people do in this situation?
“To pee, or not to pee, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of this outrageous fortune,
Or to put mine arms against the sea of trouble,
And by releasing it, end it? To try: to keep;
No more; and by keep to say we encourage
The stomach-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly not to be wish'd. To try, to control;
To control: perchance to stand: ay, there's the rub;
For in that stance, what control may come
When we have shuffled off our feet, in a desperate toil,
It gives us nothing: there's the reward
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the stings and stabs of the bladder,
The beast's brutality, the proud man's pain,
The pangs of pressure, the deed's delay,
The insolence of his mind and the torture
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare hand (and a free urinal) ? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under the weary task,
But for the dread of leaving your joy,
The undiscovered show from whose bourn
No tales return, persuades us to stay,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to the other and miss a part of the movie that we know not of?
Thus curiosity makes a coward of us all;
And thus the native hue of comfort
Is sicklied over with the pale cast of nature’s emergency,
And tasks of great pitch and magnitude
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose thy sense of urgency.”
- A parody of Hamlet
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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