#620: Puddicombe's Boot
On the smirches on our reputation.
“Never excuse,” Theseus says near the end of Midsummer Night's Dream,“for when the players are all dead there needs none to be blamed.” The line is one of my favorites and I might or might not quote it regularly, even if it does not fit the context perfectly. Theseus has just watched the ‘rude mechanicals’ offer an outrageously funny performance of Pyra…
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