I have just had a very strange experience

[impulsereader]

I typed Shakespeare into LJ's search field.  I really did not expect this to elicit strange results - but it did.  Try it - it is fascinating.  Please report back.

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[chloris.livejournal.com]

I'm curious. What did you find so strange? I saw links to ebooks and comments/discussions about him/his plays which is kind of what I expected.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

When I did it again just now it was definitely less strange. I was startled when the first things that shot to the top seemed almost completely unrelated; then, mixed into what I was expecting I got 'The Good the Bad and the Sparkly' - which surprised me even more by not being a Twilight reference, a discussion of Gaston's intelligence - Disney,OUAT, or other, I'm unsure as I didn't click on it, something that seemed related only to sports, and various other entries which seemed tangential at best. I think it was probably a weird black hole of time on LJ or something like that; they do give me the most recent posts, after all.

[chloris.livejournal.com]

Heh. It does made sense in a way. Shakespeare is so woven into the fabric of English speaking society that he can be connected to just about any conversation.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

True. Just yesterday I listened to the soundtrack of Kenneth Branagh's all-singing, all-dancing Love's Labour's Lost. Shakespeare is endlessly adaptable.