If you feel like your friend just stabbed you in the back, read Julius Caesar. "Et tu brute" is one hell of a moment in literature. So much is packed in to those three words.
Good one, I should add it to the official list. Caesar's next line in the play, "Then fall Caesar," means - If you Brutus are also part of this conspiracy, then what's the point of living any longer. So, for example, if thenewgreen unfollowed me, I would look up to the screen and say, "Et tu Novo Viridis?" whoops, I better check and make sure you're still following me.
I always thought that maybe, just maybe Caesar thinks to himself, "if Brutus thinks I'm this horrible... maybe I am." and then dies. But the internal struggle Brutus has had and is going to have is summed up in this line too. That's a haunting thing to hear if you're Brutus. By the way, when I was a kid I tried to emulate Mercutio; Hilarious, ladies man the kind of guy you want at a party. I always thought I'd some day name my son Mercutio but nope, not even in consideration. I wouldn't dream of naming my son that now.
Mercutio - Thanks for that. In these various posts, I'm trying to express a lifelong relationship with Shakespeare. It seems you have one too. As far as naming your son, Mercutio is out, but August is still in the running? I met an August yesterday - Augustus actually - a 10-year-old boy from Argentina. He seems to like his name just fine. Here's a line I often thought about when I was breaking off with someone, also from Brutus:the internal struggle Brutus has had and is going to have is summed up in this line too. That's a haunting thing to hear if you're Brutus.
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
oooo, that Brutus line reminds me of The Stranger by Camus or Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. -Two books I that I think have a great deal in common. edit: As for names, it seems that Atticus is leading the pack.