If the activities of humans all over the world are considered to be a disaster, then the history of our species is indeed, as Macbeth said, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. I prefer the viewpoint of Hamlet, who said, "What a piece of work is a man!"
Amen.
To which Leonard Cohen added:
ReplyDelete"When a piece of work is alive, you know it!" (1994)
Hey, I just got another reading on that triple-play-on-words already: Phil Spector locked Leo into the studio (where they were laying down the tracks for Death Of A Ladies' Man c. 1977) and pointed a loaded gun at his temple to prevent him from leaving the studio; so, yeah, I guess he knew it was a live piece . . .