"We will all laugh at gilded butterflies", says Megan Fox

One of the most famous writers of all times, said it. And one of the hottest chicks of today, sports it. How's that for being a famous one liner? Could I swap places with these 50 characters?

But when William Shakespeare wrote it for King Lear, little would he have guessed the canvas it will be flaunted on. It adorns the, now obscenely famous, skin over the right shoulder of Megan Fox, the superstar from Transformers. Actually, I think she was the only reason the sequel was made (in my humble opinion) and absolutely the only reason to watch the sequel (which I have not, at least not yet).

So, Shakespeare wrote it as a dialog jesting a stint in the prison. The characters must have realized that all grapes are sour from within the stone walls, no matter how you look at it. So, they decided to laugh at the gilded butterflies because they know the truth.

Really? What about this world that we live in is true anymore? Isn't everything around us, merely a gilding over our vulnerable and naked skins? Want a Ferrari? How about a Tommy Hilfiger? Evian anyone? So, does that mean we ought to be laughing at each other from the moment we are born till we die? Actually, if you think about it, Shakespeare could have been laughing at the rest of us. Maybe he is rolling with laughter in his grave right now. May his soul rest in peace.

Maybe Megan sports it because she never wants to forget that the shimmer and glitter of Hollywood is only a gliding over the already beautiful inner self. Or maybe she has some issues with her self image and she got this tattooed on her skin so as to never lose her sense of grounding. Or simply because getting a tattoo is the 'in thing' and makes you doubly famous in Hollywood (remember Angelina Jolie and Lindsay Lohan?).

But all said and done, having a tattoo is cool and having it in plain English that anyone can read is pretty ballsy too. But then, that's Megan for you. Love it or leave it, just can't deny it.

By the way, here is the part from King Lear where the line appears. You can notice that the tattoo is not a word to word copy. Open to interpretation, like I said.

"We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage…
 so we'll live,
 And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
 At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
 Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
 Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
 And take upon 's the mystery of things,
 As if we were God's spies…"
                                                    --King Lear, Act V, Scene 3


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