09w06:3 Shakespeare's Blog Part VII Posted February 2nd, 2009 by timothy. 0 Comments Goodreads | 2009 week 06 number 3 (Shakespeare’s Blog Part VII) February 2nd It is the birthday of Hamnet and Judith and I have not been home this long time. But I have sent news and also money. I am busy here, I am much occupied, I am working for them, am I not? Aye, much occupied; be true to thyself if not to others. I ask her about her present life but she will tell me little. What does she seek, what does she wish from this life? She does not know. Surely love, I say; surely we all wish love, the pleasure of love and the strong fort of love’s protection. She does not know. I ask what name I may call her by now, for I cannot madam her so in perpetuity. Her true name, she says, is Fatimah. Kissing both her hands in leaving I let my lips linger. She does not draw her hands away. (Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun, p. 148)
