Comments | lareinenoire: 30 Days of Shakespeare, Day 12

lareinenoire

30 Days of Shakespeare, Day 12

Aug 01, 2010 10:49

Day #12: Your favourite scene

Damn you, meme, how dare you make me choose? I will arbitrarily narrow it down to...five. Okay, five. In no particular order.

( In which we find a representative sampling )

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gileonnen August 1 2010, 14:58:06 UTC

... great, now I want an Othello AU set in the universe of Inception.

lareinenoire August 1 2010, 15:00:54 UTC

::FLAIL:: OMG YES WANT. SO MUCH.

I have no idea how someone would go about writing that, but EEEEEK!

(Although I did write a scene once where a character was tempted by the Devil quoting Iago.)

gileonnen August 1 2010, 15:07:38 UTC

Well--it would have Othello, Iago, Cassio, and Desdemona sent to Cyprus in order to investigate the governor's ties to the Turks; Cassio is the Architect, so whatever Othello sees in the dream, he thinks Cassio has built there. But Iago has hacked the architecture to graft a second dream onto this dream--not a dream within a dream, but a sort of auxiliary logic engine that, with the right set of actions in place, begins to replace the logic of the dream that Cassio's built ... with a logic of reality. Othello has to determine which is the real dream, the false dream, and reality--before he is driven to kill his own wife.

(Why did I not do something like that? I write Brothers Karamazov fic. I should have done something like that.)

lareinenoire August 1 2010, 15:09:45 UTC

I really, really want to read this now. ::makes puppy eyes::

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