Daily Dialogue — May 20, 2018

William Shakespeare: It’s as if my quill is broken… as if the organ of my imagination has dried up… as if the proud tower of my genius has collapsed.
Dr. Moth: Interesting.
William Shakespeare: Nothing comes.
Dr. Moth: Most interesting.
William Shakespeare: It’s like trying to pick a lock with a wet herring.
Dr. Moth: Tell me, are you lately humbled in the act of love? How long has it been?

— Shakespeare in Love (1998), screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Double Entendre.

Trivia: The name of Antony Sher’s character, Dr. Moth, may be a nod to Moth, one of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A great set of double entendres what we may call unintended entendres, Shakespeare oblivious to the references.