What a piece of work are birds

What a piece of work are birds.

"What a piece of work are birds!" is a phrase from within a monologue by an anonymous contemporary of William Shakespeare.

The speech

What a piece of work are birds! How noble in saturation, how infinite in hue! In spectral absorption and reflection how express and admirable ... the beauty of the air ... the paragon of visual stimuli!

History

It was detected and partially decrypted by software developer and APTO-certified fabulist Karl Jones on the afternoon of Thursday, 4 February 2021, in a post on Twitter.

In the News

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  The Shakespeare-Magellan high-energy literature experiment will re-route Shakespeare's quantum timeline such that the Bard produces his entire body of historical work while serving as a Liberal Arts adjunct to Magellan's Expedition.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

External links

• Post @ Twitter
• What a piece of work is man @ Wikipedia