Thank you for all the comments and feedback…it’s very heartening and amusing to know your take on the articles. Continuing from where we left, in this exercise Pat had listed down words that were coined or connected by Shakespeare in the course of his plays and which subsequently became part of the English vocabulary. We had to use as many of those words as possible and weave it into a story. We did this exercise at 9.30pm post dinner by which time I was ready to hit the sack (since I hadn’t slept a wink the night before leaving for Khandala). I barely managed to keep my eyes open and found it a Herculean task to churn out a story that made sense. I have underlined the words selected from the list:

The madcap entered the monumental hall with a swagger looking all majestic. He raved and ranted about the remorseless savagery and torture meted out to him following the scuffle. A mountaineering champion with a lustrous career, today he was a worthless olympian with dwindling fortunes. He has been accused of cold blooded assassination, damaging circumstantial evidence and creating discontent. Branded a bandit, his tranquil world is now lacklustre, lonely and frugal. A hidden blood stained blanket in the luggage on the lower rack reminds him of his compromise with his principles. He looks back at his advertising days with amazement and wonders when alcohol took over him.  

Trivia: We had to count the number of words we used from the list and I must have counted over 5 times but never managed to complete it as I was so sleepy that I would lose track of the numbers in between .