Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?


Hamlet: Words, words, words.


Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2



Saturday, March 5, 2011

Imbroglio

imbroglio: [im-brohl-yoh] noun an intricate and perplexing state of affairs; a confused mass; a misunderstanding or disagreement of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations.


An endless imbroglio
Is law and the world,—
Then first shalt thou know,
That in the wild turmoil,
Horsed on the Proteus,
Thou ridest to power,
And to endurance.

----Ralph Waldo Emerson

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