Jim Infantino’s first novel contains a couple of
Shakespeare references. The first is a reference to
The Tempest, with Infantino writing, “As is true with every sea
change in thinking, there are always people who cannot or will not adapt” (p.
64). The phrase “sea change” comes from Ariel’s lines, “Those are pearls that
were his eyes/Nothing of him that doth fade/But doth suffer a sea change/Into
something rich and strange.” The second reference is interesting, for it is a
mashup of phrases from two of Shakespeare’s plays,
Macbeth and
Romeo And Juliet.
A character named Nora “thexts” (thought-texts), “Tomorrow, my love.” Other
people pick up on her thought, and the line begins to change as it is shared
(sort of like the game of telephone), until it is “Tomorrow and tomorrow and
such sweet sorrow my love” (p. 185). The “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”
speech from
Macbeth is my favorite of
all of Shakespeare’s work, and the second part of that line of course comes
from what is commonly referred to as the balcony scene from
Romeo And Juliet. “Parting is such sweet
sorrow/That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
The Wakeful
Wanderer’s Guide To New New England & Beyond was published in 2018.
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