“to bed, but not to sleep”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
My (false) memory tells me this was part of some Hamlet soliloquy referring\u00a0to insomnia caused by concerns of dead dads and murderous uncles.<\/p>\n
For close to a decade it’s been in my brain’s bank of Facts I Know, ready to be deployed at the appropriate time. That time came tonight, and as soon as it passed\u00a0my lips I began to doubt myself.<\/p>\n
Denial<\/h1>\n
Surely a\u00a0quick Google search<\/a> would corroborate my assertion?<\/p>\n Uh oh<\/p><\/div>\n Hmm… no obvious hits. But c’mon it’s a famous quote, right? Let’s cut to the chase and just search\u00a0within the text of the play itself.<\/a><\/p>\n Dammit<\/p><\/div>\n No dice. So I have to come to terms with the fact that the quote is not – and has never been – in the play “Hamlet”. Worse yet, no variation of\u00a0the phrase exists\u00a0in any of Shakespeare’s plays<\/a>.\u00a0I can only imagine I attributed the quote to old Will because of its similarity to the famous line “to sleep, perchance to dream”.<\/p>\n But if so, where does the “to bed” quote come from?<\/p>\n Searching for “to bed but not to sleep” isn’t very useful\u00a0– it seems that a million and one people have used the phrase at some point or other. The number one hit for the exact phrase (in quotes) is a TripAdvisor review.<\/p>\n![\"0\"](\"http:\/\/45.77.89.248\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0.png\")
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<\/a>Acceptance<\/h1>\n
Distraction<\/h1>\n
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