My mind is going. I can feel it.
(no that’s not the quote. It’s this one. Please fill in the blanks, and identify the source. The answer is stuck behind some loose neuron in there somewhere:)
…all the __________ you dreamed of in your ___________…"
all the things you dreamed of in your retirement years
all the things you dreamed of in your island paradise
all the things you dreamed of in your angriest dreams
all the models … you dreamed of in your sexy Japanese sex fantasies
That last one needs an elipsis … but is too good to omit.
Are you thinking of this line from Hamlet (I:v)?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
No, you got it. My mind kept supplying the word “history” for “philosophy,” and I knew the right thing was stuck under a mental file cabinet with the dust bunnies. It would have come when I was cleaning up spilled oj or something.
I hate when brains do that.
It’s not far from my favourite Shakespearean ITM reference, which occurs in the scene before this:
The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse,
Keeps wassail, and the > swagg’ring upspring reels
And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,
The kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out
The triumph of his pledge.
If I ever record an album of ITM (doubtful!), I’m going to call it “The Swagg’ring Upspring Reels.”
I’ve just found a better one! The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1, spoken by Shylock:
Some men there are love not a gaping pig;
Some, that are mad if they behold a cat;
And others, when the bagpipe sings i’ the nose,
Cannot contain their urine