Banksy for the Wimp: Shakespeare Edition - Yesterday's play was Timon of Athens
Timon of Athens, the namesake of the play I was looking for yesterday in Banksy for the Wimp: Shakespeare Edition (http://wp.me/P1kDns-FD), died a rough death as a bitter grumpy man. It's a dark look at human relations and the concept of friendship. While Timon was wronged many times over by people who knew how to prey on him he too failed the concept of friendship. He was gifted with one true friend all along as he acknowledges himself, but he called him too lowly to count. It's not the number of friends that counts nor who they are, it's that they stick with you and are there when you need them.
With that thanks everyone for baring up with me through this month of storytelling and even playing along. <3 AB
"A wealthy and generous man believes in the value of friendship. In its name he doesn’t tire to give whatever is needed until all his wealth is gone. When he asks those he always considered his best friends for help in return he is repeatedly turned down. It turns the man bitter and he curses the city’s walls upon leaving. When he finds a treasure in the cave he dwells in, he gives most to subsidize an assault on the city and to whores so they would spread diseases in its walls. He dies a misanthrope acknowledging that he ever had only true one friend but lamenting that it was a servant."