A Card by Any Other Name: The Tragicomedy of Sir William Shakespeare, A Collector Most Devoted
I bid you much ado with our special guest writer today: Act I: Scene I – The Bard’s Study, whereupon Sir William doth contemplate his newest obsession To collect, or not to collect—that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous eBay auctions, Or to take arms against a sea of Topps, And by opposing, end them. To bid, to win— No more—and by a bid to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To bid, to win— To win—perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, For in that win of cards what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause—there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. Alas, dear sirs and madams, hath I—William, the Bard of Avon—become ensnared by this newfangled vice most seductive: the collecting of sports cards! Verily, 'tis a passion most perilous, for I find myself more entranc...