Subject: shakespeare and ben and blackie
From: JU39@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Moss Madden)
Date: 1990-11-28, 06:05
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

My profoundest apologies if the observations beneath were noted and discussed
ages ago in the US, but as you know in the UK we are only now on episode 6. If
there is an explanation, please post or e-mail me with it
Thanks



Has anyone else noticed the following (my wife, who is a literature
buff, noticed - I didn't): when Ben and Jerry(?) visit OEJs and the
madam (I assume) called Blackie comes out Ben starts quoting a
Shakespeare sonnet to her. But, he misses out 3 lines. The sonnet
follows, with the missed lines indented (He stops short, but that is
because he is interrupted by his brother)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
      And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
      Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
      And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,

Ben stops here, but the sonnet continues:

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

I don't know if the last lines' being missed out is important, but surely the
three in the middle of the sonnet are deliberately missed out. Any ideas if it
has any meaning??????
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