A Shakespeare meme? Yes, please!

[ysobelle]

She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;




Now. Those of you who know me, who can say why this would be my obvious choice?





And by the way-- cos this has been bothering the hell out of me for a long while now-- the word is meme. It's pronounced "Meem." It's not "Me-me." It's not LiveJournal/netspeak. It's a scientific term that refers to the way an idea is spread.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=meme

meme
P Pronunciation Key (mm)
n.
A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

[Shortening (modeled on gene), of mimeme from Greek mimma, something imitated, from mimeisthai, to imitate. See mimesis.]

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

meme

n : a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one generation to another by nongenetic means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultrual counterpart of genes"


Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

Comments

[hennabee.livejournal.com]

I knew about meeeeeem...but...I'm sorry. I guess I do not know you well, for I do not get it. :(

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Heh-- it's a passage Simon recites in the Duran Duran video, "The Nightboat," which you can only see on their video collections, as it was never a single.

Okay, yeah, maybe it was a trick question.