Averil decided to join the local Read the Classics Club. The group met every Thursday evening in a room underneath the town library. Professor Slatkin was the chair and guided the members. They would all read the same classic at the same time and discuss it at the meeting.
“This year,” announced Professor Slatkin at Averil’s first meeting, “we are going to devour Shakespeare. So many people are afraid of Shakespeare. There’s no need to be afraid. He won’t bite you. Simply get a copy of the complete works and begin. Start by sinking your teeth into The Comedy of Errors. It’s Shakespeare’s shortest play and therefore a good one to begin with.”
Averil was dismayed. Had she perhaps bitten off more than she could chew? She began with page one. To Averil it was dry. It was hard to swallow. By the end of the week she had finished.
“It’s not to my taste,” Averil confessed to Professor Slatkin. “I don’t think I could cope with anything bigger.”
That was the end of Averil’s attempt to devour Shakespeare. “I think I’ll go back to reading,” she said.
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Oh my goodness, that was hilarious. 😀
She should try the Divine Comedy for dinner.
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Thank you! You’re invited to the dinner. Bring your Milton.
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I tried to devour Poe in one sitting. Nevermore.
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Sounds a bit scary.
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Maybe she should try it as a souffle?
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As the say in the theatre: Break an egg.
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Now that’s a good yoke!
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I shell enjoy it.
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These puns are over easy.
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The closing sentence is of tremendous import. There are no less than fifty shades of reading. The lady’s heart was clearly not into Shakespearean foibles.
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Fifty Shades of Reading – now there’s a good title for a book!
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Clever – English is such a good language for twisting meanings. I quite like a picnic by the river chewing on a couple of Banks’s novels.
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I must admit that I’ve never read a Bank’s book – we aliens are discerning in what we read about ourselves – but most certainly the English language is full of twists (and twits – I’m not including thyself in that twit comment Chris).
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I’ll take anything, you know what they say about publicity!
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This post gave me a stomach ache. So did Othello.
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It was Macbeth what gave me tummy rumbles.
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Is it the witches? I could see that.
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Averil was lit-er-al. She should have put mayonnaise on it.
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I think mayonnaise on the comedies, but ketchup definitely all over Macbeth!
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Perhaps she should have started with some Mac(Beth) and Cheese, followed by an Omelette (Prince of Denmark) and finished off with some Midsummer Night’s Dream Topping. Or maybe got the Readers Digest more digestible version.
By-the-way, I think I’ve worked with that teacher.
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Ha! Very clever indeed! I think the teacher was making Much Ado About Nothing. I particularly liked the Omelette!
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