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One of the most interesting men I remember was a goateed cotton dealer in San Francisco. When I first noticed him at a Holy Name meeting, I did not guess that I should ever want to know him better. But during the social hour someone asked him to recite some Shakespeare. To my astonishment, he got up and rendered Hamlet's "To be or not to be," and Jaques' "All the world's a stage." It seems he had enriched his cotton-trading life by making the reading and memorizing of Shakespeare an avocation. He proved to be the most interesting member of our Holy Name Society in that San Francisco parish, the only one whom I will never forget. |
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