Friday, April 3, 2009

A Shakespeare Mystery

A library in Westchester County, New York has a plaque on a reading room wall. Underneath the person's name, it states that she was "A lover of Shakespeare & mysteries."


I guess the real mystery is that this woman would be about 400 years old if she were truly a lover of Shakespeare.

Had the plaque indicated she loved reading Shakespeare, or even that she loved Shakespeare, there would be no mystery.

The use of the word lover in this context is wrong.

And in a library, no less.