Interesting Quote

pinkchip · MIP Old Timer

Interesting Quote

Just Toni · MIP Old Timer

Hi There Mark,

Read that four times, and did not get it....unless we would prefer to become beasts....??????

No more thinking on that one.

Was Shakespear a heavy drug user????

Stumped,

Toni

Lexie · Senior Member

It's a lament, by Cassio, a character who is an alcoholic. He's bemoaning the effects of alcohol.

Here's a link to the scene.

MIP--where you get culture along with your sobriety.

louisa · Senior Member

I certainly felt lower than the lowest creature on earth by the end of my drinking. It would have been an insult to an animal to compare myself to one.
Alcohol was such a "friend" in the beginning. I still can shake my head in disbelief at times at where I ended up.
Love
Louisa xx

Just Toni · MIP Old Timer

Thanks Lexie,

Perfectly clear, just like Louisa said, inside my mind, or lack of one, the end stages of my drinking.....Louisa, I, too, shake my head in disbelief, and then take a breath, and sort of want to pinch myself, am I really here, and really sober for a long time.

My Higher Power lets me know that this is the case.....I give HIM the credit for my life....always....

Miracles we are, indeed....

Hugs, and thanks again for such a sobering message....Mark, where did you come across this, curious??

Toni

pinkchip · MIP Old Timer

I was looking for this poem someone read in a meeting that was about alcohol..but I found this at www.quotegarden.com/alcohol.html. Some of the quotes are not negative about alcohol but positive...so it's not all fully inspirational for us problem drinkers lol.

The quote would seem to illustrate the concept of "cunning, baffling, and powerful" regarding alcohol... Amazing, but not surprising to see our old friend turned enemy working in the same way hundreds of years ago...

-- Edited by pinkchip on Sunday 29th of August 2010 05:02:02 PM

Lexie · Senior Member

Mark,

Check out the link to the whole scene that I posted up there. There is a WHOLE LOT of dialog that could come straight out of AA's descriptions of alcoholism.

I guess we should be glad Bill wrote the Book in the 1930s and not the 1600s! Imagine having to read "How Worketh It"!

Aquaman · MIP Old Timer

Lexie wrote:
I guess we should be glad Bill wrote the Book in the 1930s and not the 1600s! Imagine having to read "How Worketh It"!

THAT is a funny thought.

jonijoni1 · MIP Old Timer

LOL!! Wow!! That is a terrific quote Mark. I can't believe no one has ever brought up the "alcohol" stuff in Shakepeare and so forth! Great job!!

And Lexie, very funny thought!

"Admitted we were stricken from spirits and that our life did becometh unmanageable..." or something to that effect????
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