“Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?
Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.
Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.
Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.
Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.
Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
The above is from around Act 5 of Macbeth (Shakespeare). I thought it quite approriate as a link, however tenuous, to several of our artists' works.
If you have an hour and twenty minutes spare I recommend watching the video, just for the sake of watching if for nothing else.
Oh and how great would it be if we took our title from the section I've picked from the play? I've highlighted the part I mean, but in particular how about...
'Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow.'
- Rachael
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