If somebody put a blindfold on me and gave me a pen?

Question

Then left me alone for 50 or so years, would I eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare?

Answer 1

The Complete Works ? YES - if you've read them.

(with so much time and nothing else to do, then you would eventually remember every word of it)

Of course, anything he's written THAT YOU HAVEN'T READ will not be available to you. Your life has been different to his, so you couldn't guess what the missing works are, nor what their text would say.

Then there's the problem that some of the plays might be misattributed. We may imagine that a person existed, who is actually made up from different parts of other writers.

So if the question is 'could I write everything he wrote?' then NO.

(You'd need an infinite amount of time, as in the idea of an infinite number of monkeys, which was brilliantly reworked by Douglas Adams.)

Answer 2

I think I'd put the pen down and take the blindfold off again :-)

Answer 3

Doubt it in fifty years. Isn't this normally with monkeys and a typewriter and infinity? It's sonmething used as an example in chances isn;t it?

Answer 4

Either that or poetry so nonsensical that it is perceived as deep that you become more famous than Shakespeare and are heralded as the best since gravy. :)

Answer 5

No, the pen would run out.

Answer 6

NO, you would have pen marks all up your arms!!!

Answer 7

Not judging by what I've read of yours so far, no.

Answer 8

This is the question! lmao

Answer 9

No.