I'm an actor and was cast in the title role of Hamlet at my college. As I read the play, I couldn't help but notice that Hamlet acts very simmilarly to someone with ADHD, like myself. The whole play is him being indecisive--some have said that it's a play all about one who can't make up his mind. He is manic around people, and has a very complex inner life. He has wild mood swings. His thoughts go a mile a minute--this is reflected heavily in his soliloquies. He is incredibly impulsive, and seems to be living only for the present with little regard for how his actions will influence the future. And of course, he has seemingly random ruminations about death and philosophy--the "to be or not to be" soliloquy really has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the rest of the play (other than in a thematic sense).
Anyone else who has seen or read Hamlet have any thoughts on this hypothesis? That Hamlet had un undiagnosed case od ADHD?
THis is fascinating, thanks for sharing.
And it's so cool that you act! I've been thinking of acting as the only thing I might want to do in this world.
That Hamlet had un undiagnosed case od ADHDthe need for speed
- driven to an early grave
chronic understimulation
meets 'doin' the right thing'
'good grief !'
' ... being King ain't so great
sure there're fringe benefits
- but the holidays ??? '
maybe time-shifting with jobbing paupers ?
Ophelia balls kind sir :-) ?
'How very forward'
great page (annotated in green) ->- ~s ource (http://www.y-knot.net/Puns.htm) ~
"The are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy."
William Shakespeare
(Hamlet)
[ added ] material - to quotations below
Branes* (not brains) 2004,
mixed technique,
50x74x72 cm (internally lit)
[ note : internally lit] A con-fusing mind-blower
* « Short for "membranes" in astrophysics: branes are domains of several spatial dimensions, within a higher-dimensional space. »
Dedicated to Lisa Randall and her infinite capacity and patience in explaining
[ Lisa Randall - MIT - with key interest in 'warped passages'
-> quasicrystals ]
LORENZO
Lorenzo Scaretti's artistic endeavours are an all-out "Pun-ic war" against the conventional.
If in art as in strategy the alternative to the conventional is only nuclear then the responsability for the ultimate indecision will be left to those Hamlets of this world who reduce everything to dilemmas;
[ Why should any decision be made lightly ?
- no decision matters in the manner we believe -
- it's the
'to be
or not to be ...'
philosophical logical point-counterpoint of triggering abstract thought processes of electric blue -
- which did for him (Bill)
and will for you too.
was the question -
twas the question
tis the point
(here)
no solution was necessary.
(or your money back)]
[ pun versus conventional
- indicates 2 valid perspectives on 1 thing - although valid -
one (ADD) - is better than the other (nonADD). ]
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All great :
the following list is truly outstanding.
QUOTATIONS
-"My words are mine and not yours, and do not belong to you. All must come out of your own being"
Zen concept
['education of the mind of the individual
- as individualized process of honest self-enquiry -
- in which
~each and every~ individual must without exception *undertake* for themselves
prior to realization of a whole sum indivision of individual(s)' ]
"I taught you some words, but not the truth that lies behind them"
Galileo Galilei
[ tyranny of language ]
"Philosophy is the struggle against the enchantments exercised on the mind by language"
Ludwig Wittgenstein
[ tyranny of language ]
"Since man only thinks through the use of words and external symbols, these same words and external symbols could turn to man and say: "You do not mean anything at all other than what we have taught you".
Charles Sander Peirce
[ {{{ {physical}{mental } }}}duality ->- {{{unity}}} ]
"Language is indicative of a will to make all things of this world (which by their very nature are part of an eternal process) become other things: words and signs...... Words and writing are a potent and complex attempt at an "imposition to define" which however is destinated to fail since it seeks the impossible........
Words, even poetical words, are only nets thrown over things of this world which in any case they fail to capture in their true essence.... such nets are illusions since one is never in a position to capture eternity."
paraphrasing Emanuele Severino in "La Gloria"
[ become other thingst->- evolution ]
"Tactile and sonic qualities of language: 1) Sound wills meaning into being; 2) Words adhere to each other acoustically; 3) Words make patterns of sound and the meaning that such patterns throw up can be quite different from the surface meaning creating clusters of sounds which echo or play off against each other."
Tom Paulin
[ staccato he ->met<- crescendo ssheeeeee diminuendo]
"Uncovering profound and hidden significances in the a55ononances and rhythm of language enchantingly leads us beyond the limits of rational thought."
L. S.
[ a55ononances & the basis to the game of mind]
"(Undoubtedly there is a) central position among the arts of art forms whose medium is language."
Noam Chomsky
[ art we see + art we feel ->- the two classes of art meet in <w<o<r<d<<<]
"The beauty and elegance of a mathematical equation are no guarantee of the equation's validity yet they spur us to enthusiastically defend its assumptions and conclusions."
Andrew Wiles
[ multiple possible go..delians in gE8ometry
- only one need concern us though ]
"Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth"."
Karl G. Jung
[ rolling circle of model building and data acquisition and model building and :-)
- the model is the differential -
- the perfect circle cannot be differentiated -
- here change bears an exquisite and perfect continuity -
- and since man operates on 'delta'
heavenly stimulation'd be the tangential meanderings of a zero friction zero gravity unending Mo..ebius circular slide ...
'weeeeeeeeeeeee' ]
"Science and aesthetics are complementary, not conflicting."
Michael Seherner
[ ... pity then - that science seems to enjoy bashing artistic endeavour; reciprocity between real and imaginary - the one turning the other - whilst the other turns the one ]
"Reason should be the servant of intuition. We have created a society which honours the servant and forgets the master."
Albert Einstein
[ reciprocity between rea(son)l and i(ntuition)maginary]
"Intuition the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer."
Robert Graves
[ i(ntuition)maginary associative thinking
over
logical data structure of mind (evol form)
- the 13d metamodel web (Indra's net) of ADD -
- evolutionary successor to the monotone flatlands of linear paradigm ]
"Creative thinking may simply mean the realization that there is no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done."
Rudolph Flesch
[ change is the constant ]
"The whole of science is nothing more then a refinement of even/day thinking ...he who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good dead; his eyes are closed."
Albert Einstein
[ {{{sun}}}day/even{{{moon}}}duality ]
"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
Pablo Picasso
[ conservatism has its place -
as subservient to 'banking' change
- where banking has nothing to do with money and
conservatism has no association with politics
- maybe once they did -
- and then came the evolutionary psychology of legacy creatures past ]
"Art is the objectification on of feeling and the subjectification on nature."
Susanne K. Langer
[ notional virtual -> notional real ->- objectification on of feeling
'back to the garden' ->- subjectification on nature ]
"..I do not mean art to be a mirror of life. Eventually, if it wants to , life can - at its risk and peril - mirror itself in art."
Felice Levini
[ Hall of circus and not bathroom mirrors ]
"Le beau est toujours bizarre. Je ne veux pas dire qu'il soit volontairement, froidement bizarre, car dans ce cas il serait un monstre sorti de rails de la vie. Je dis qu'il contient toujours un peu de bizarrie, de bizarrie naive, non voulue, inconsciente, et que c'est cette bizarrie qui le fait etre particulierement Beau."
Charles Baudelaire
[ a subconscious uncontrolled attraction to curvacious:p concave:) geome-trees:D ]
"The road to a real understanding of mind must pass through the cellular pathways on the brain."
Eric R- Kandel
[ the mental abstraction layer (mind) sits over the physical abstraction layer (brain)
-> have children ->
the Holy Trinity
through perspective of {{{man}}}+{{{woman}}} pre-duality {{{man woman }}} ]
"He who understands baboons would do more toward metaphysics than Locke."
Charles Darwin
[ did Darwin had rather an inflated view of himself? ]
"Humour is by far the most significant behaviour of the human brain. Humour tells us more about how the brain works than any other human activity "
Edward de Bono
[ as does the bridge from comedy into tragedy -
- through
dark or black humour ]
".....The greatest challenge to Western thought, is that the existence of a strict line separating human beings from nonhuman beings may simply be a figment of our imagination."
Lee M. Silver
[ -yes- ]
"There are many aspect of humanity that we still need to understand for which there are no useful models. Perhaps we should pretend that morality is known only to the gods and that if we treat humans as model organism for the gods, then in studying ourselves we may come to understand the gods as well."
Sidney Brenner
[ Cambridge University is crawling with these little critters ... ... ]
"The discovery that individual events are irreducibly random is probably one of the most significant findings of the 20th century. I suggest that this is the strongest indication we are of a reality "out there" existing independently of us."
Anton Zeilinger
[ 'subito dubito' - meets unknowable
- uncertainty from imaginary orthogonal 3d spaces -
- which're there -
provably so
->- ->- faith ]
"Your theory is crazy but it is not crazy enough to be true."
Niels Bohr
[ pushing without sealing the envelope -
-
'pushing' ->- shifting human conception of reality towards greater explanatory capacity
versus
'sealing' ->- impeding our understanding of reality by 'fixxing' 'false' divisive gods within notional virtual structure of our mind -
- it's real. ]
"The are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy."
William Shakespeare
(Hamlet)
[ Yay !
Back on topic ]
who'd have thought?
:-)
~ps~
"The are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy."
[ big wheel keep on turning ... ... ... ]