Sheesh:) The moment I mention Shakespeare everybody runs for cover. I've put it into informal speech. Have at.


Cassius: I wanted to let you know that I noticed you haven't seemed yourself lately. You haven't been as kind as you are usually--you're entire countenance is different and I feel like I can't do anything to get to the man I used to know.

Brutus: Oh, no--it isn't what you think. If I look angry, it is at myself. I've had some things to think seriously about recently and they've been really bothering me. I'm not willing to share them yet, but maybe they have made me seem a bit more thoughtful than I usually am. I don't want to give my friends the wrong impression (and you are one of my closest friends) but I have to think this stuff through. I may need to step back from things awhile but I just want you to know it isn't because of you--I just have to think.

Cassius: Then I was wrong. I've actually been thinking so much about you that I haven't been putting my own affairs to rights. But I wonder if you actually see yourself.

Brutus: Of course not, I've got a personal bias. How can a man see himself unless he has something to reflect his image onto?

Cassius: Yeah, you're right. But it really is a shame there isn't some kind of mirror in which you could see reflected what a good person you really are. A lot of people like you the best--the best save our king--and they speak well of you. A lot of people wish you would be more ambitious.

Brutus: I think you're looking for something in me--ambition--that I don't have.

Cassius: Listen: you know that mirror reflection we were talking about? Well let me tell you what I see, and I'll be like the mirror. I'll give you a clear unbiased reflection of yourself and believe me, you'll see things you never saw before.