Strike the Set
Well, the delivery was preposterously stilted, but this one will actually probably look pretty decent, as the genre goes, in transcript. In other words:
Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practis'd accent in their fears,
And, in conclusion, dumbly have broke off,
Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,
Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome
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Ha!
..........a sound, but not in government.
Ya gotta find your libertarian quotes where ya can.
Kevin
Is that quote in reference to the fact that, when Bush delivered his address, he was wearing a donkey's head?
donkey's head?
Man, I thought he really looked like that.
i actually took the opportunity to reread not shakespeare but robespierre's 1794 address justifying the reign of terror, and compare and contrast. eerie.
Gaius,
That's downright creepy.
Yeah, that "Midsummer Night's Dream" reference proves remarkably apt....
'Theseus:
"Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a Bush supposed a bear?"'