Friday, October 23, 2009

To Be or Not to Be

Number One Son, who knows about these things, put me on to Sean Shannon, the Guinness World Record fast talker. Hamlet's soliloquy in 23.8 seconds; 655 wpm.

Shakespeare for the guy-on-the-go.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's very clever.

Though we have a colleague, an actor approaching retirement, who recites lines quite fast, too, in the staffroom, unprompted, and when he does nobody says anything, which is cruel, because he's waiting for us to comment.

10/23/2009 12:23 PM  
Blogger Jonathan Webb said...

The English are very cruel

Cruel, but quaint.

10/23/2009 4:06 PM  

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