Possible Truths
"Memory, the warder of the brain."
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare
posted by La Tulipe | 7:29 PM
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3 Comments:
Hmmmm, not always diligent, that warder. My brain often escapes custody and goes on the lam.
Rian thinks he means Memory protects us from things we do not want to or should not know.
I looked up the extended quote to see if that would help me make more sense of it ...
LADY MACBETH: ... his two chamberlains
Will I with wine and wassail so convince
That memory, the warder of the brain,
Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason
A limbeck only ...
I see what is meant ... but my brain keeps whispering to me that i should read it in reverse; that the brain is the warder of memory.
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