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[singingcynic]

PHEW okay. Just got an email from the Arden saying that they won't be able to contact us with a decision about the apprenticeships until next week -- so all is not lost! This is super-delayed gratification though... tantric job interview. Sigh.

On the bright side, I had a meeting at the New Hope Arts Center today about using their space for my scene

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[marguerlucy]

Hahaha I thank you for the flattery, though I'm afraid I tend to use outside help in interpretation as well. However, if I had to guess, I'd say "A pretty period" is refering to what valentine just told her "I will write/please you command, a thousand times as much" - and "I can guess the sequel" is probably her saying "I can guess what you meant to say after 'and yet'" - and then she toys with him with the rest of her lines, but with her own words. does that make sense? "Well I can guess the sequel" - he and we assume she's about to guess what he was about to say, "And yet --" but then she puts in her own words. This only works however, assuming the letter he took is for him/his friend, or that she knows he's in love with her.

[singingcynic]

the whole scene is about her trick - she got him to write a love letter to himself, and she's trying to get him to keep it.

[purilethings]

great passage. You've got some good choices to make. I lean towards Liz's interp, that it is directly a facet of her messing with him.

The other possibility is that she is still reading the letter, and the "pretty period" refers to that punctuation.

I'd run with the former idea though.

Francis RTM, Master of Shakespeare geekness.

[singingcynic]

I think I let me interpretation get too garbled trying to make sense of the possible "period/sequel" punnage. You think the "pretty period" is "a thousand times"?