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[sunshine_fruit]

[Yumi Ozawa is having a rough night. She's decided to bring up something she hasn't in a while, a certain man named William Shakespeare, and a certain play of his.]

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice

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[ofmywill]

[ Alas, any references go right over his pop-culture filled, half-asleep head...but it sounds old! That's something. We can guess... ]

A play?

[sunshine_fruit]

Do you know which one, Minato-kun?

[ofmywill]

Not off the top of my head.

[sunshine_fruit]

It's from a Midsummer Night's Dream.

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[usedkunai]

[This guy... so not good at this stuff. Shakespeare goes right over his dumb little head, but:]

wait...

ur @ the inn?

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[sunshine_fruit]

Just for some coffee before I come back.

Why are you up again?

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[usedkunai]

kinda late 4 coffee tho, huh?

no good reason. my sleeps all screwed up from the other nite now...

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[sunshine_fruit]

It's never too early for coffee, though, right?

Well, you're more than welcome to come join me.

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[silver_lucifer]

"If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,
It stands as an edict in destiny:
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is a customary cross,
As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers."

I do wonder which of them was right in the end ... whether to speak of 'love' and happiness as a lightning's flash, profound, yet ephemeral and fragile in the face of the shadows of life; or as a constant star, something ever-present if dogged by imperfection.

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[sunshine_fruit]

Isn't it possible that both of them were wrong, though? Or that maybe what's "right" is different for everyone.

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[silver_lucifer]

Oh, entirely; reality is averse to pigeon-holing, and much depends on one's own capacity for things; I would not be surprised if there weren't people who could've had a constant, but merely misunderstood or rejected it for lack of faith in it, fear of a situation, fear of rejection...

And just as many who've been burned for believing in something that was never there.

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[sunshine_fruit]

You really know your stuff, don't you? I don't think you're a theater fan...a writer, maybe? Or an actor?

What do you think, then? About happiness.

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[ieyasachu]

i cannot say i recognize the origin of those words or even have the slightest idea of what they may pertain to...

but i hope you find company tonight, miss. it's best not to let our thoughts engulf us too deeply sometimes, wouldn't you say?

[sunshine_fruit]

It's a bit too late for that, I think. When you fall into a routine, sometimes your thoughts can get away from you.

Do you want to know what they're from, then?

[ieyasachu]

they can but company helps alleviate it a bit, from what i've experienced at least.

if you would be kind enough to enlighten me, i would love to know

[sunshine_fruit]

Even when you're in a crowd, though, you can feel alone. Do you ever get that feeling?

It's from a famous play from my world. A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's a story about four lovers, the fairy queen Titania, her husband Oberon, and a band of performing villagers.

[usedmapquest]

That is an interesting poem. Did you write it?

[sunshine_fruit]

It's dialogue from a famous play from my world. I didn't write it.

What do you think it's describing, if you don't mind me asking?

[usedmapquest]

I'm sure I wouldn't know. I never studied much literature.

[sunshine_fruit]

"...The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion."

The bright things Lysander is talking about are happiness and love.