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Act 5 A Mid Summer Night's Dream

SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and Attendants

HIPPOLYTA

'Tis strange my Theseus, that these
lovers speak of.

THESEUS

More strange than true: I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

HIPPOLYTA

But all the story of the night told over,
And all their minds transfigured so together,
More witnesseth than fancy's images
And grows to something of great constancy;
But, howsoever, strange and admirable.

Venetia Phair RIP

Venetia Phair, nee Burney, who as an 11-year-old girl in
1930 named the newly discovered planet Pluto, died at age
90. "In the year 4,000 A.D., when Pluto is hollowed out and
millions of people are living inside," said an amateur
astronomer, "the name of Venetia Burney may be the only
thing that Great Britain is remembered for."

I love my mom.

That article was wonderful, I am beaming with joy because you can't imagine how powerful these ideas are and how much good you are doing for everyone who tries to embrace these ideas. Really well written and so timely because that Serchuk article describing the economies evidence of "green shoots" emerging is huge this week and little do these people realize how much more gratifying simple plant growing can be vs. growing our wallets. Think about our worth… on one side, we think about our jobs, size of our wallets and education. But on the other side, our worth is what we give back to our friends and families, hopefully strangers in need and our environment. You are a huge part of this reorientation. I am so proud of you.


http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/05/state-of-the-city-opinions-new-york-urban-gardening.html

"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end."


-Capote