30 lines of shakespeare

[Warik]

It took me about an hour to memorize 16 lines from Caesar (his pre-assassination speech). Which, now that I think about it, I still have memorized after 7 years. Badass.

I guess it will take you twice as long to memorize 30 from Hamlet.

Oh and yes, it's lame busywork.

[JaBlue]

This is my second time memorizing this [censored] and I don't remember some of the parts AT ALL which is really wierd. I know some half-sentences here and there though. God this sucks

[swede123]

I don't know about the time needed to memorize this, personally I'm a big picture kind of guy, not necessarily keen on detail stuff like memorizing lots of text verbatum.

That being said, it really is a neat thing when someone can recite from memory a large quantity of text. I remember this guy back in our church about ten years ago who every Christmas did a recital of the entire Sermon on the Mount. He was a good speaker too so it was pretty powerful stuff sitting there actually hearing someone speak the words rather than just reading about it.

I say go ahead and work on it. If you learn it really well it will probably be something that sticks in your brain for a long time, giving you lots of opportunities to show off your mad skills.

Swede