Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Group 4

well as you saw, we held a funeral for the English major. Abby and Katie grabbed onto that little idea like bull dogs and we hashed out a general idea of what we were going to do.

Katie- The English Major (deceased)
Abby- TS Eliot and officiate
Joan- Hamlet
Brianne- Mrs. Ramsay
Nick- Mole(?)
Derek- Gabriel
Ronald- Krishna

none of us listened to each others eulogies before we spoke them to the class so it was interesting, Katie had a little trouble holding still, i think.

as for my eulogy i picked Hamlet's To be or Not to be soliloquy plus that Alas poor Yorik, speech and kind of paraphrased and bastardized them together. here it is

"To be or not to be that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Professors, or to take arms against a sea of Business majors, and by opposing, corrupt them. 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.
Alas, poor English Major, i knew him (i should hope) a fellow of infinite wit, of most excellent fancy. he hath bore me in his thoughts a thousand times. and now abhorred in my imagination it is . where by you now? your ponderings, your songs, your flame of passion wont to set the classroom on a roar.
Remember thee!? aye thou poor English major, I'll remember thee, Yes by heaven i have sworn't. I'll not cast off my mourning black. Good Night sweet English major and Flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest."

i had a hard time not cracking up during everyone else's eulogy. but hey, it was supposed to be fun, going out with a bang.

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