We all have our vices and mine is reading stories about vampires. I have read Anne Rice's collection, JR Ward's Brotherhood of the Black Dagger series, Twilight, and various other tales from the crypt, but my favorite series is The Southern Vampire Series aka the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. In anticipation of the next book being released May 8th, I re-read the last book to jog my memory about the plot that will be segueing into the newest delicious story. My husband has affectionately come to call my fantasy reading material "Vamporn" as there is always a love story and a saucy love scene or two......or ten involving a sexy bloodsucker. The last book by Harris had my favorite bloodsucker, Eric Northman, discussing a problem with his sweetie and he quoted Shakespeare with "There's the rub".
I will never really know whether it was my joy with Eric using the word "RUB" or my rabid curiosity that sent me researching the origin of this phrase, but irregardless I had to know. As it turns out this phrase is a term used in lawn bowling, a sport that Shakespeare is widely believed to have loved. In lawn bowling, the "rub" was an obstacle or uneven area that could send balls off course. So when the bard referred to the rub in Hamlet's soliloquy, he meant it as a snag or problem.
Of course I immediately ran with this line of thinking. As a massage therapist I am regularly presented with tight muscles. Tight muscles restrict or decrease the bloodflow and lymphatic drainage, which might be perceived as an obstacle to homeostasis, the state of balance in the body. By rubbing/massaging tight muscles and connective tissue I can help restore the body to a state of balance.
In other words, I rub to release the rub.
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