George EliotA pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.
About This Quote
In this quote from William Shakespeare, he describes a building that he is constructing. The quote is a metaphor for his novel, "As You Like It." In the play, the heroine of the novel, Rosalind, travels around the country disguised as a man and trying to learn more about what it means to be a woman. In one of her stops, she meets a former carpenter who is now a farmer. As they start talking, this man says that he used to build things with his hands but he has been replaced by machines and no longer has any skill with his hands.
He then goes on to describe how he's been living in the garret, which he describes as being up in the attic of a house. He also points out that since he doesn't have any skill with his hands anymore, he hasn't even dug a foundation yet.
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