Shakespeare cont. & Term Paper Ideas

Regarding Shakespeare, I also wanted to give you the following passage from Romeo and Juliet:

How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death: O, how may I
Call this a lightning?--O my love! my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there." (5.3.88-96)

All I can say is (Picnic, Lighting.) A merry time before death.
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Regarding my final paper, I think would like to investigate the sixth episode of Joyce's Ulysses in relation to Pale Fire.

I suppose the title could be, "The Man With the Trilby."
The thesis I have not decided yet, as I have not yet read Episode 6.

OR I might instead write my paper solely on lilac lane and lightning death.
A reading of "Madame Margot: A Grotesque Legend of Old Charleston" by John Bennett would be in order for this paper.
My thesis will investigate why death comes with lightning and lilac lanes.