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What a Piece of Work — Shakespeare, code, and personal ephemera.

What a Piece of Work

What a Piece of Work

Posted on: December 4, 2019 Last updated on: June 3, 2021 Written by: whatapieceofwork Comments: 0
Why “What a Piece of Work”? It’s a wonderfully contradictory idiom and a quote from one of my favorite speeches in Hamlet. When used to describe an inanimate object or creation, “piece of work” is an admiring or at least…
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Well-meaning Bay Area front-end developer committed to the Hamlet Aesthetic.

Piece of Work

What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty
In form and moving, how express and admirable
In action, how like an angel
In apprehension, how like a god!
The beauty of the world
The paragon of animals
And yet, to me —
What is this quintessence of dust?

(Hamlet 2.2)

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