The legend is (from what I remember from school) that Alexander the Great’s sister was (became?) a mermaid. She would stop ships and boats and ask the captain/sailors about her brother, even years and decades after his death. If the captain told her Alexander had died, she’d sink the ship. So they had to lie and tell her that he still lives and reigns, and she’d let them go unharmed.
I clicked on this because I thought it was a recipe for cake you can make when you’re depressed and can barely function…. Apparently it’s depression cake, as in, a recipe made during The Great Depression because milk, eggs, and butter were super expensive. But it would probably also be something I could make if I’m super depressed and want cake. Because it’s simple and doesn’t require perishables and you literally mix it in the baking pan. So it’s a depression Depression cake. Which is awesome.
• The fact that the scene at the end of Hamlet where Horatio goes to drink the poison to join Hamlet in death is an exact perfect parallel of the scene at the end of Romeo & Juliet where Juliet goes to drink the poison to join Romeo in death, which is not at all a coincidence.
• The fact that the entire play Horatio is calm and level-headed but the moment Hamlet is dying all that goes out the window as he becomes a grief-stricken mess, completely unprepared and unwilling to live without Hamlet.
• The fact that the word “sweet” has historical significance as a deliberate indicator of homosexual love and how that means the inclusion of “sweet prince” at the end of the play is a completely deliberate indication that Hamlet and Horatio were in love.
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