Rating 5 out of 5 (Extraordinarily platitudinous)
We classically educated vicars' wives are able to talk a lot about Shakespeare, or "the Bard" as those of us in the know like to call him. Shakespeare was of course the greatest writer who will ever live. While ordinary people like you might treasure your childhood cuddly toy, sophisticates like myself treasure our first folio edition of "the Bard". I paid a three figure sum for mine, way back in the days when only people like me could afford it. First folios are so much better than modern editions because they have old spellings like Nay anfwer me ; stand & vnfold your felfe.
Everything that is old is so much better than anything that is new. Everyone knows that art stopped short in the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine. C.S. Lewis, a writer who was nearly as good as Shakespeare and a Christian, said so, so I must be right. My husband, a vicar, is trained in the science of theology and he has observed similar confusion in the eye of biblical scholars with their text analysis, grammar comparison and vocabulary listing. Due to the horrors of all this modern 19th century scholarship some theologians even doubt that Jesus walked on water. With insight possessed only of a theologian, they point to the second law of thermodynamics and say "It is impossible to build a 100% efficient engine or heat pump, therefore clearly Jesus could not have walked on water!"
I have even heard it suggested that the third lump of the Invisible Magic Friend could not have impregnated the Virgin Mary with the extra chromosomes needed to conceive the second lump of the Invisible Magic Friend because it's just silly. Fools, fools! IT'S IN THE BIBLE! People who were definitely eyewitnesses, mostly illiterate and spoke Aramaic, wrote it down in Greek for us. People must be REALLY STUPID not to believe it when it's written down in the Bible and is really old as well.
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We classically educated vicars' wives are able to talk a lot about Shakespeare, or "the Bard" as those of us in the know like to call him. Shakespeare was of course the greatest writer who will ever live. While ordinary people like you might treasure your childhood cuddly toy, sophisticates like myself treasure our first folio edition of "the Bard". I paid a three figure sum for mine, way back in the days when only people like me could afford it. First folios are so much better than modern editions because they have old spellings like Nay anfwer me ; stand & vnfold your felfe.
Everything that is old is so much better than anything that is new. Everyone knows that art stopped short in the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine. C.S. Lewis, a writer who was nearly as good as Shakespeare and a Christian, said so, so I must be right. My husband, a vicar, is trained in the science of theology and he has observed similar confusion in the eye of biblical scholars with their text analysis, grammar comparison and vocabulary listing. Due to the horrors of all this modern 19th century scholarship some theologians even doubt that Jesus walked on water. With insight possessed only of a theologian, they point to the second law of thermodynamics and say "It is impossible to build a 100% efficient engine or heat pump, therefore clearly Jesus could not have walked on water!"
I have even heard it suggested that the third lump of the Invisible Magic Friend could not have impregnated the Virgin Mary with the extra chromosomes needed to conceive the second lump of the Invisible Magic Friend because it's just silly. Fools, fools! IT'S IN THE BIBLE! People who were definitely eyewitnesses, mostly illiterate and spoke Aramaic, wrote it down in Greek for us. People must be REALLY STUPID not to believe it when it's written down in the Bible and is really old as well.
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