20 June 1998 - Shakespeare: space alien

Speaking as a writer, I have to say that Shakespeare boggles my mind. He’s suspiciously good. How could the wet tissue of flesh and blood hold up to the great issue of so much genius, if you know what I mean?

My new theory is that Shakespeare was a superintelligent space alien. First, only an alien could be weird enough to write outlandish slipslop like “thou lob of spirits” and “words are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.” Second, he must have needed an alien mind control ray to get rich doing it.