Supposed you were given the opportunity, through some metaphysical event, to have dinner with William Shakespeare. Would you?<\/p>\n
I know many people who would say, without even needing to think about it, “Hell yes!” After all, a conversation with the greatest writer in the history of the English language is a sort of dream come true.<\/p>\n
But what if Shakespeare, the actual person, were to end up deviating dramatically from Shakespeare the written presence? What if he should turn out to be boorish — or even worse, boring?<\/p>\n
Would you rather know this, or would you regret having discovered such an uncomfortable truth? Would you end up wishing that your dreams of greatness had remained forever unsullied?<\/p>\n
I don’t think there is any right or wrong answer to this question. Yet I suspect that how you choose to answer this question might say a lot about your particular view of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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