ay_my_lord

I thought she ... *bites his lip -- and compared to staging a coup, his stupidboy-troubles are so refreshingly ordinary, but* But I said things, sometimes, when I was feeling sentimental and playful ... I said things to everyone, and I meant them when I said them, but the way I said them was a little extravagant, a little romantic, and no one took that seriously. You never took me seriously, did you? *-- see, this is where Hamlet's practice pretending to be mad came from, from playing the fool for his schoolmates, and that's part of why it's so hard playing prince, being dignified and responsible for what he does and says -- no one takes that seriously, do they? yes, Hamlet, they do*