Jun 09, 2011jimg2000 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Interesting San Francisco murder mystery starring a professor turned fool, a bunch of homeless characters and a lesbian detective. What got me hooked were author's discovery of "fool" as prescribed below:
This fellow’s wise enough to play the fool,
And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
He must observe their mood on whom he jests.
The quality of persons, and the time;
And like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice
As full of labour as a wise man’s art.
For folly that he wisely shows is fit,
But wise men folly-fallen, taint their wit."—Twelfth Night iii. 1
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To Play the Fool