Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Some have tried to use their will, but our way will be gentler still

In a comment on "Bananas and blow," Bill recounted a dream he had about Anne Hathaway, a movie actress who has the same name as Shakespeare's wife. He mentioned that her surname could be read as "hath a way," and I quoted the line in Ulysses where Stephen makes the same pun:

He chose badly? He was chosen, it seems to me. If others have their will Ann hath a way.

Just now, I put on some music on YouTube, and an unfamiliar Noe Venable song was cued up by the algorithm:


If you're not paying attention, you might miss the part where she whispers this:

Some have tried to use their will,
But our way will be gentler,
Gentler still than the fangs of discipline.

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