Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Hurricane Ophelia

Hurricane Ophelia is making its way along the east coast and may soon pass over my house. Well, partially anyway. Fortunately, it's not supposed to be super strong when it hits. If I'm wrong and it is in fact "super-strong", then you'll know when you see that my posts will stop forever. Then again, I may do that just to make a point.

Anyway, I find it sort of ironic that this hurricane is named "Ophelia" since in the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, the character Ophelia committed suicide by drowning herself. (At least that's what happened in the movie version by Mel Gibson.) Get the connection? Hurricane = water. Ophelia, Hamlet's sister, = drowning in water. Maybe it's not so much ironic as it is an uncanny coincidence.

If you'd like to learn more about Ophelia's death in Hamlet, visit your local library and ask one of the homeless people to please get off the computer so you can look up Ophelia on the library's system. Or, you could just click here.

Have a great night!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

To be, or not to be? That is the question.

Well, it's either that, or what happened to my shoes? I know there around here somewhere. lol

Anonymous said...

they're not there...dang. i'm tired.

and what's up with the "word verification" thing now each time i post a comment? what the crap?

Mike Covey said...

It helps prevents "spam" comments. PUNK!

Anonymous said...

okay, i'm waiting on some more, "things you should never do."