Good Deed

Posted on May 8, 2004 by sheila

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

— Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

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4 Responses to Good Deed

  1. Michael says:
    May 9, 2004 at 8:59 am

    I had to look this one up because it reads almost exactly like a line from Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory: “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Heresy, I know, but I prefer the Wonka version to Shakespeare’s.

    Go ahead, savage me. I can take it.

  2. red says:
    May 9, 2004 at 2:06 pm

    Dude, I will not savage you. Weirdly, I knew the Willy Wonka line before the Shakespeare line. When I first read Merchant of Venice, I thought: “Willy Wonka said this!!”

    I prefer “naughty” to “weary” though. It has a darker more uneasy connotation.

    Long live Willy Wonka

  3. mitch says:
    May 9, 2004 at 8:50 pm

    Viva the book – but muerto el movie.

    Can’t wait until the “Dahl”-ized remake comes out.

  4. red says:
    May 15, 2004 at 11:11 am

    Gene Wilder will forever be Willy Wonka in my memory. A genius performance.

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