Ugliness

Golgos weekly posting on all things scabrous...

- Shakespeare's Portrait of Falstaff from HENRY IV -

Henry: [...] there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a ton of man as thy companion. Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hatch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it? Wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it? Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but in villainy? Wherein villanous, but in all things? Wherein worthy but in nothing.

Bob from Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho was inspired by Falstaff.