She could have…
1. Held her breath.
2. Shed her heavy clothes and swum to shore.
3. Kept her clothes on, relying on youth and excellent muscle tone to pull through.
4. Let her grievances keep her afloat.
Eric Fortune
5. Sought Revenge
6. Remembered that, as Tom Robbins likes to say, it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
This is very funny. I was a theater major at UW and we would joke about alternative choices for Ophelia. Thanks for you blog, I read it most days.
I like your blog and always try to keep up with it. Love this idea and it makes me want to change a lot of things out there in Culture World….to begin with, how about changing the ending of Thelma and Louise?!!!
You bet. That movie doesn’t need its end. All those characters needed was a good lawyer and a divorce for Geena.
I’ve always been in the camp that the death of Ophelia was murder when Gertrude pushed her off the wall into the river. Meanwhile I have a dozen of these little tiny plastic Ophelias which I freeze into ice cubes for certain parties.
We know what its properties are by its absence-
tomo