Is this a Meatloaf, which I see before me,
The Spatula toward my Hand? Come, let me taste thee:
I have thee not, and yet I smell thee still.
Art thou not, tasty Vision, sensible
To chewing, as to sight? or art thou but
A Meatloaf of the Minde, a false Creation,
Proceeding from the hunger-oppressed Braine?
I see thee yet, in form as edible,
As this which now I munch.
Thou hunger’st me the way that I was going,
And such an Entree I was to eat.
Mine Eyes are made the fools o’th’other Senses,
Or else worth all the rest: I see thee still,
And on thy Pan, and Spatula, Gouts of Ketchup,
Which was not so before. There’s no such thing:
It is the hungry Stomach, which informes
Thus to mine Eyes….

Is this a Meatloaf, which I see before me,
The Spatula toward my Hand? Come, let me taste thee:
I have thee not, and yet I smell thee still.
Art thou not, tasty Vision, sensible
To chewing, as to sight? or art thou but
A Meatloaf of the Minde, a false Creation,
Proceeding from the hunger-oppressed Braine?
I see thee yet, in form as edible,
As this which now I munch.
Thou hunger’st me the way that I was going,
And such an Entree I was to eat.
Mine Eyes are made the fools o’th’other Senses,
Or else worth all the rest: I see thee still,
And on thy Pan, and Spatula, Gouts of Ketchup,
Which was not so before. There’s no such thing:
It is the hungry Stomach, which informes
Thus to mine Eyes….

Jen @ 4:08 pm November 30th, 2008 (comment #29)

Oh, prithee, post it!

I once rewrote Macbeth’s dagger speech to be about meatloaf. :-)

“Wherefore art thou Trent?” definitely means “why are you Trent” but it is common to make that mistake. You see, Juliet is really unhappy when she finds out that Romeo is the son of her family’s enemy, and rather than wondering where he is, she is wondering why he has to be named what he is for “that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet”–in other words, she wants him to be called something else so she can be with him.

With Trent, it doesn’t really work:

However, I will say that another Hamlet quote does:
“Neither a borrower, nor a lender be, do not forget stay out of debt….to thine own self be true and then it follows as the night does the sun that thou can not be false to any man.”
(quoting from memory)

What the heck does that mean anyways?!

It means “why are you Trent?” It is a reference to these lines from Romeo and Juliet:

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy:
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for thy name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.

Juliet is forbidden to love Romeo because of the enmity between their two families, and here she is wondering why the man she loves had the misfortune to be born to the bitter rivals of her father’s house. It is one of the most misquoted passages in Shakespeare, since people invariably refer to “a rose by any other name”.

And this was fun to read, Trent.

I believe it means, “WHY are you?” not “WHERE are you,” but I could be mistaken. School was a LONG time ago, LOL.

Anyway, VERY creative post, Trent!!!

What the heck does that mean anyways?!”

It means, “Trent, where are you” but is much more rhythmic and emphatic.

You go, Trent!