I had a few boxes of books that I had planned on using as
set dressing for a film. We haven’t shot the film, and I no longer have space
for the books, so I’ve been so slowly going through the boxes and reading most
of them before donating them. So many of them have Shakespeare references,
including Louise Hay’s
You Can Heal Your
Life. This book has a reference to
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. Hay writes: “If you saw your problems on a stage
in a play by Neil Simon, you would laugh yourself right out of the chair.
Tragedy and comedy are the same things. It just depends on your viewpoint! ‘Oh,
what fools we mortals be’” (p. 99). “Lord, what fools these mortals be” is a
line spoken by Puck in the play’s third act.
You Can Heal Your
Life was published in 1984.
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