I don't know why Hamlet had to fuss so much about a bodkin I don't think you could manage to stab yourself at all effectively with one of these. You might do more damage with a toothpick, frankly. #bodkin #sewing

From Hamlet..,

"... To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,..."

#bodkin

@ai6yr “but that the dread of something after death,
that undiscover'd country from whose bourne no traveler returns, puzzles the will,
and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others we know not of.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
and thus the native hue of resolution
is sicklied o'er with a pale cast of thought
and enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard
their current turn awry, and lose the name of action.”
(from memory. Also, 2 sorta Star Trek refs)
@ai6yr “the undiscovered country” + enterprises, LOL
@Archergal @ai6yr but do you remember it in the original Klingon?