All Hallow's Eve

Its Halloween! One of my favorite days of the year, full of manic mahem, candied delusions, costumes and fun. It is amazing how free people feel when they take up a mask or costume. The disguise frees them from the constraints of their "normal" self and allows them to explore the possiblities of the "other" self that they now occupy. William Shakespeare often explored this theme. In his "As You Like It", Rosalind uses her disguise as Ganymede to be close to Orlando. Well, there's more to it than that, but try reading the play, you'll learn more that way(I love heroic couplets).