Well that was pretty cool....

[tallguy]

I went down to the main Seattle Library building today.  They are exhibiting a Shakespeare First Folio (and a Third Folio.)  To read the great Act 3, Scene 1 soliloquy from Hamlet from an actual almost-400-year-old copy of the Folio, of which only 233 are known to still exist?  Yeah, I enjoyed that. 

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life....

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Hmmm, do you need tickets?  We have matinee tickets to Coppelia this weekend, so will be in Seattle.  Might be worth seeing if we can get there while it's open.

[giramomma]

That's coming to my neck of the woods this winter. I'm pretty excited.

I also saw the Dead Sea Scrolls when that was on a traveling exhibit.

We also got to touch real pirate loot when that went around as a traveling exhibit.

(yes, I'm a dork.)

[tallguy]

Tickets are free, but weekends were "sold out" early.  You can go online at the Seattle Public Library website and probably get some for Friday afternoon or evening if you will be here then.  They also have some same-day walkup tickets available but I don't know how many.  Tickets are good for a certain half-hour period of admission.  (I actually cheated a little.  I had a 4:00 ticket and grabbed a 2:30 walkup since I was there early.)  It's a fairly small room with the two Folios open but in glass cases, and some informative banners on the walls.  Still, if you are a Shakespeare fan it is something to see.  I talked briefly to one of the people working there, and he mentioned that it was pretty emotional for a lot of viewers to the point that they got tears in their eyes.  I told him, "Well, I'm nowhere near that bad!"   

[lexxy703]

The Seattle library is worth seeing regardless of the Shakespeare folios.

[HoneyBBQ]

Cool. I work within walking distance. I should head down there some lunch hour.

[sapphire12]

Sounds like you are enjoying your semi-retirement or did you retire all together? Either way, you are enjoying your life and that's most important.

[tallguy]

I am definitely enjoying my semi-retirement. 

Cool. I work within walking distance. I should head down there some lunch hour.

If you want to see the Folio, it has to be now.  It ends on Sunday.

I'm really wondering now how many people are in Seattle or the Seattle area.  I know there's a few....

[tallguy]

Apr 13, 2016 12:56:06 GMT -5 lexxy703 said:

The Seattle library is worth seeing regardless of the Shakespeare folios.

[shanendoah]

The Seattle Library makes Conde Nast's list of the 10 most beautiful libraries in the world.


And there are lots of us in the Seattle area. We've talked about a Seattle area meet up, but we never actually plan one.