After events,
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Up in Room 808Neil had taken a quick shower to help get the redness out of his eyes and straighten out his chaotic thoughts and so when he came careening down the steps it was in a fresh outfit of dark jeans and a loose fitting shirt that flowed around his hips. The outfit suited his demeanor which was such that as he hit the base of the stairs, his cheerful voice rang out across the Bar.
“Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.'”
William Shakespeare: Sonnet #8He recited the sonnet as an actor upon the stage might speak the speech of a monologue, with a bright smile and graceful gestures, obviously having fun with the difficult language even as his dark eyes swept the bar, looking for a figure he knew was probably tucked away in a quiet corner, with a notebook and a spent eraser.
However! This does not mean he’d mind a few waves or comments from any gathered about tonight.