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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09776819136448782354noreply@blogger.comBlogger7423125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-19553242302982596482024-03-17T18:36:00.000-07:002024-03-17T18:39:04.040-07:00Answer The Call<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="7"><br></font></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="7"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"I should've known - </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">no <b>human</b> is that <b>humane</b>."</span></font></div><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><font size="7">-- Ripley-8</font></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fUejnmqxr7A?si=PZqFZ_sMMXUkap4O" width="500" height="281" id="y_id_6439_9b48_f771_8c97" frameborder="0"></iframe><br></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">humane</u> (adj.)</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">mid-15c., a parallel variant of <b>human (adj.)</b>, with a form and stress that perhaps suggest a <i>stronger</i> association with Latin <i>humanus</i> than with Old French <i>humain</i>. <b>Human</b> and <b>humane</b> were used interchangeably in the senses<b> "pertaining to a human being"</b> and<b> "having qualities befitting human beings" </b>(c. 1500). The latter at first meant<b> "courteous, friendly, civil, obliging,"</b> then <b>"marked by tenderness, compassion, and a disposition to kindly treat others"</b> (c. 1600). By early 18c. the words had differentiated in spelling and accent and <b>humane</b> took the "<b>kind</b>" sense.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Compare<i><b> germane, urbane</b></i>. Meaning<b> "inflicting less pain than something else" </b>is from 1904.<b> Inhuman</b> is its natural opposite. <b>The Royal Humane Society</b> (founded 1774) was originally <b>to rescue <i>drowning</i> persons</b>; such societies had turned to <b>animal care</b> by late 19c.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-40148478170428852672024-03-17T13:30:00.000-07:002024-03-17T13:30:04.503-07:00What We Have To Understand About Russian Leaders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKwN5Emy61ZQcEW8aIscI3-1aACTPlA-LY9mgxOUiAt8oAIkmcXKbakre3yEIcsEFQ-_qnqqjjEi1DoNK_dwKOHJmld1YU4GGeb3K0H4JBiJ5sWaDxlSow4W5T0xtD4cSzAOYU6uOgA3D_RZAWHgZlqaeH-fBf7V7RwEwXGx4X5V4w8kx3ISBL6Gkff0/s1294/Screenshot%202024-03-17%20at%2019.22.53.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1294" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKwN5Emy61ZQcEW8aIscI3-1aACTPlA-LY9mgxOUiAt8oAIkmcXKbakre3yEIcsEFQ-_qnqqjjEi1DoNK_dwKOHJmld1YU4GGeb3K0H4JBiJ5sWaDxlSow4W5T0xtD4cSzAOYU6uOgA3D_RZAWHgZlqaeH-fBf7V7RwEwXGx4X5V4w8kx3ISBL6Gkff0/w640-h424/Screenshot%202024-03-17%20at%2019.22.53.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/nZIBZtmMgiM?si=-BMXNEBv33-7L-kQ" width="480"></iframe></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b>What We Have To Understand About Russian Leaders</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What we have to understand that as far</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">as The Russians are </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">concerned </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">uh, that they at one moment can</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">be very Russian and another woman can be</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">very communist uh it's like a Dr Joo Mr</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hyde syndrome that works uh I have such</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">vivid Recollections of that both with</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">regard to Kruschev but also with regard to</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Brezhnev uh we would have for example </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">a very </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">very tough argument uh with</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Brezhnev uh and then we go up to dinner as we</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">did at adasha afterwards and he would be</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">raising his glass and toasting the</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">grandchildren etc etc etc now I don't</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">mean by that that it was an act either</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">the first time or the second time what I</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">mean is that there are split</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">personalities there and my conclusion</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">basically is this we have to understand</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">the world as it is Russians and</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Americans can be friends</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and everybody must remember that we were</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">friends and we were allies too Russians</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and Americans were were</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">too but the governments of the United</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">States and the Soviet Union can never be</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">friends because our goals are totally</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">different so what we have to do then is</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">to find a way uh to deal with the</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Russian leaders as much as we can as</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Russians recognizing also that as</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Communists uh that they do not have our</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">best interest to put it mildly in mind I</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">think too that uh another recollection</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">that I have of brf that is interesting</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">is the way that he was so physical in</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">his contact he he was a man uh who was</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">always grabby in his conversation or</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">when I was riding along uh after being</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">in the Crimea to the airport in the car</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and he put his hand over on my leg and</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">this and it I felt that I was in the</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Oval Office with Lyndon Johnson uh cuz</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Johnson also I did I just think it's a</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">shame that those two never got together</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">it would really been a a a bear wrestle</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">uh but uh the but on the other hand I</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">would say</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">that that while</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">brf uh was without question a ruthless</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">tough uh communist he could be a very</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">warm generous Uh Russian he could be</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">like a little boy with his collection of</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">cars for example uh and he drove like a</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">madman practically scared me to death</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">one time when we' given him a new lincol</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and he drove over the single Lane roads</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">up in Camp David uh going around curves</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">that I wouldn't even take a 30 mil hour</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">we were going 60 and he got after we got</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">out of the car he said you know this car</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">handles very</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">well one of the prices of</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">diplomacy</span></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-68651229333449585142024-03-17T13:07:00.000-07:002024-03-17T13:07:45.920-07:00Madman<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/QPQcdXQCsk0?si=CVFy9AZSSSQoQsVh" width="480"></iframe></b></u></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b>The Truth About The "Madman" Theory</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It isn't just what I would call </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>A Madman </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Theory</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I think that <u>overstates</u> it uh --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I remember <b>Johnson</b> telling me in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1959 -- or 69 I should say -- uh </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">that Johnson </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">told me, when he came to </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The White House </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">that he felt that <b>one of his <u>mistakes</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">was to give <b>The Soviet</b> an impression uh</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">that, uh <b>we wanted peace</b> and we would pay</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>almost <i>any price</i></b> to <b><u>get</u> it</b> uh -- he said, uh --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He said one of the advantages at Ike had -- </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">-- he </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">referred, he always called him "<b>Ike</b>", </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">never <u>did</u> but he said </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">one of the </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">advantages that Ike had </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">was </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">that <b>The </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Russians were <u>afraid</u> of Ike</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">afraid of </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">him because he had <u>been</u> <b>the great</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>commander in World War II,</b> and because of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>his military background </b>and just because</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">of <b>the kind of <u>man</u> he was</b>, even though</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Eisenhower was a very amiable, pleasant</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">grandfatherly type but they knew that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>beneath that exterior</u> was <b>a very cold</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>tough fella</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Do you think they were afraid </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">of you? </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Oh</u> yes</b> -- well they were afraid of </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">me </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">though not because of my appearances</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and not because of my speeches but</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">because <b>what I had <u>done</u>. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There is nothing </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">that added <u>more</u> to my credibility</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">certainly with <b>The Russians </b>and with</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">others as well, than that <b>I took <u>great</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>risks</u> in order to bring The War in</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Vietnam to a to a conclusion, to assure</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>the withdrawal of our forces</b> uh --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">incursion into Cambodia uh the purpose</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">of that was to shorten the war to make</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">sure that our withdrawal program could</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">go forward on schedule uh -- and <b>to save</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>American lives</b> and <b>it <u>worked</u></b> -- uh the fact</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">that be three weeks before the summit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">meeting in Moscow which we wanted which</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>they </i>wanted as well, that <b>we bombed and</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>mined Hyphong</b> uh -- after there was a great</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">North Vietnamese offensive <u><i>supported</i></u> by</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Soviet tanks and guns </b>which </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">we could <u>not</u> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">tolerate --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I remember people said "Well, you </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">can still go </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">to Moscow even though Saigon </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">is lost,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I said <b>"No Way!" </b>I said, <b>"We -- I can't</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>be sitting across the table from Breznhev</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>when Soviet tanks are rumbling through</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>the streets of Saigon </b>and that's why we</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>did</u> what we did and despite <i><u><b>all</b></u></i> the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">predictions by some of our Soviet </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">experts </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">to the effect that they would </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">have no choice </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">but to cancel the summit, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">it made them </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>really</i> I think <u>more</u> eager </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">to have it</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> and </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">the other thing which I </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">think may have had </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">some impact on their </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">thinking was that </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">even after the </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">elections of 1972 uh -- </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>The December Bombing </b>which was the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">critical action was taken in order to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">break the deadlock in Paris and </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">have <b>The Peace </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Negotiation</b> uh --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">that was <u>a very difficult </u></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>decision</u> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">but it was <u>necessary</u> --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Now all of </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">these actions you don't <i>take</i> them in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">order to prove that <b>You're a Madman</b> or</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">that <b>You're a tough guy </b>or <b>a macho</b>, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">or all </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">the rest, it's <u>simply</u> <b>you take them </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>when </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">it is in the interest </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">of your foreign </b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">policy </b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">and also </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>to make sure that you </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>are </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>a credible leader </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">when </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">you meet </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">with others or </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">when <i><u>they</u></i> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">take actions </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">that you want to </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>oppose</u>.</span></div></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-56777474375613609102024-03-17T12:25:00.000-07:002024-03-17T12:25:04.244-07:00Mine is an Evil Laugh<div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/uT4gDtEhJKc?si=lhp_J6z2MX7VH3en" width="480"></iframe></span></u></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia;">Odin Sentence Loki - Thor: The Dark World (2013) Movie CLIP HD</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">"For years <b>I</b> was the <u>personification</u> of <i>everything</i> <b>evil</b>, everything <b>rotten</b> in this country.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Yeah, you dumped <u>all</u> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>your <i>own</i> criminality</b> off on <u><b>me</b></u>. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>I</b> was <b>Your Goat.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">It's your <i>own</i> Judgment, <u>now</u>. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>The Judgment </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">you're making on <b>Me</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">is only <b>A Mirror.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>You</u> have to carry the burden </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">of <b>The Image</b> <u>you</u> created."</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>-- Manson</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">“I don’t know <u>what</u> I thought </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">when it <i>happened</i>.... </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I just think <b>a lot </b>of </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">the things he says are <b>True</b> --</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">That he’s<b> A Child of The State, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>made by Us.</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">That <b>he took Their Children in </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">when<b> nobody else would</b> … </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">But of course he’s <i>cracked</i>, all right … </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">he’s barmy.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>-- Lennon.</b></span></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-19015855349328909282024-03-17T07:48:00.001-07:002024-03-17T07:48:50.986-07:00 <div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>scarf</u> (n.1)</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">[<b>band of silk, strip of cloth</b>], 1550s, <b>"a band worn across the body or over the shoulders,"</b> probably from Old North French <i>escarpe</i> <b>"sash, sling," </b>which probably is identical with Old French <i>escherpe</i> <b>"pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck,"</b> perhaps from Frankish <i>*skirpja</i> or some other Germanic source (compare Old Norse <i>skreppa</i> <b>"small bag, wallet, satchel"</b>), or from Medieval Latin <i>scirpa</i> <b>"little bag woven of rushes,"</b> from Latin <i>scirpus</i> <b>"rush, bulrush,"</b> which is of unknown origin [Klein].</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">It also is attested in early Modern English as scarp. OED points to <b>"the change of the initial p into f after liquids".</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">As<b> a cold-weather covering of warm and soft material for the neck</b>, by 1844. Plural scarfs began to yield to <b>scarves</b> early 18c., on model of <b>half/halves</b>, etc.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">also from 1550s</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>scarf</u> (n.2)</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">[connecting joint in carpentry, the ends being cut or notched so as to fit into each other], late 13c. (implied in scarf-nail), probably from a Scandinavian source, such as Old Norse skarfr <b>"nail for fastening a joint; diagonally cut end of a board," </b>Swedish skarf, Norwegian skarv, from Proto-Germanic *skarfaz, source also of Dutch scherf, Old English scearfe "a fragment, piece"(from PIE root *sker- (1) "to cut"). Also used as a verb, "unite by means of a scarf" (1620s). Also borrowed into Romanic (French écart, Spanish escarba).</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">also from late 13c.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">scarf (v.)</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">"eat hastily," 1960, U.S. teen slang, originally a noun meaning "food, meal" (1932), perhaps imitative, or from nautical slang scoff "eat hastily or voraciously, devour" which is attested from 1846 (compare U.S. tramps slang scoffing "food, something to eat," 1907). This is said to be a variant of scaff (by 1797) in the same sense, and scaff (n.) "food, provisions" is attested from 1768, but the group is of obscure origin. Perhaps the word comes ultimately from some survival of Old English sceorfan "to gnaw, bite" (see scarf (n.2)). South African scoff (n.) is said to be a colloquial representation of Dutch schoft "quarter of a day," hence "each of the meals of a day." Related: Scarfed; scarfing.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">also from 1960</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Advertisement</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Entries linking to scarf</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">*sker- (1)</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">also *ker-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cut."</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">It forms all or part of: bias; carnage; carnal; carnation; carnival; carnivorous; carrion; cenacle; charcuterie; charnel; corium; cortex; crone; cuirass; currier; curt; decorticate; excoriate; incarnadine; incarnate; incarnation; kirtle; scabbard; scar (n.2) "bare and broken rocky face of a cliff or mountain;" scaramouche; scarf (n.2) "connecting joint;" scarp; score; scrabble; scrap (n.1) "small piece;" scrape; screen; screw; scrimmage; scrofula; scrub (n.1) "low, stunted tree;" scurf; shard; share (n.1) "portion;" share (n.2) "iron blade of a plow;" sharp; shear; shears; sheer (adj.) "absolute, utter;" shirt; shore (n.) "land bordering a large body of water;" short; shrub; skerry; skirmish; skirt.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit krnati "hurts, wounds, kills," krntati "cuts;" Hittite karsh- "to cut off;" Greek keirein "to cut, shear;" Latin curtus "short," caro (genitive carnis) "flesh" (originally "piece of flesh"); Lithuanian skiriu, skirti "to separate;" Old English sceran, scieran "to cleave, hew, cut with a sharp instrument;" Old Irish scaraim "I separate;" Welsh ysgar "to separate," ysgyr "fragment."</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">snarf (v.)</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">"to take, grab," by 1989, probably imitative (compare scarf (v.)). Related: Snarfed; snarfing.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Trends of scarf</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Dictionary entries near scarf</font></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-53770832551715518202024-03-17T07:48:00.000-07:002024-03-17T17:03:31.895-07:00Nineties <div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>nostalgia</u> (n.)</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Origin and meaning of <b><u>nostalgia</u></b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">1726, "<b><u>morbid</u> longing to return to one's home or native country, <u><i>severe</i></u> homesickness considered as a <i>disease</i>,</b>" Modern Latin, coined <b>1688</b> in a dissertation on the topic at the <b>University of Basel</b> by scholar <b>Johannes Hofer</b> (1669-1752) as a rendering of German <i>heimweh</i> "<b>homesickness</b>" (for which see <b>home</b> + <b>woe</b>).</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">From Greek <i>algos</i> "<b>pain, grief, distress</b>" (see <i>-algia</i>) + <i>nostos</i> "<b>homecoming</b>," from <i>neomai</i> "<b>to reach some place, escape, return, get home,</b>" from PIE *nes- "<b>to return <u>safely</u> home</b>" (cognate with Old Norse <i><u>nest</u></i> "<b><u>food</u> for a <u>journey</u>,</b>" Sanskrit <i>nasate</i> "<b>approaches, joins,</b>" German <i>genesen</i> "<b>to recover,</b>" Gothic <i>ganisan</i> "<b>to heal,</b>" Old English <i>genesen</i> "<b>to recover</b>"). French <i>nostalgie</i> is in <b>French <u>army <i>medical</i> manuals</u> </b>by<b> 1754.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>Originally</b></u> in reference to <u><b>The Swiss</b></u> and <b>said to be <i><u>peculiar</u></i> to them</b> and <b>often <u>fatal</u>,</b> whether by <b>its <i>own</i> action</b> or <b><u>in combination</u> </b>with<b> wounds or disease.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">[Dr. Scheuzer] <i>had said that <b>the air</b> enclosed in the bodies of his countrymen, being <b>in Æquilibrium with a rare and light air that surrounds them</b>, was <u>overloaded</u> in lower countries with an air more <u>dense</u> and <u>heavier</u>, which compressing and obstructing the capillary vessels, <b>makes the circulation <u>slow</u></b> and <b>difficult</b>, and occasions <b><u>many</u> sad symptoms. </b></i></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>— Account of the publication </b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>of "<i>Areographia Helvetiæ</i>" </b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>in New Memoirs of Literature, </b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>London, March 1726</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">By 1830s the word was used of <b><i>any</i> <u>intense</u> homesickness</b> : that of <b>sailors</b>, <b>convicts</b>, <b>African slaves.</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">"<i><b>The bagpipes</b> produced the same effects sometimes in <b>the Scotch regiments</b> while <b>serving abroad</b></i>" </font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>— Penny Magazine," </b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Nov. 14, 1840</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">It is listed among <b>the "endemic diseases"</b> in the <i><b>"Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine" </b></i></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>London, 1833, <i>edited by three M.D.s</i></b> , which defines it as "<i>The concourse of depressing symptoms which sometimes arise in <b>persons who are <u>absent</u> from their native country,</b> when they are seized with a longing desire of returning to <b>their home</b> and <b>friends</b> and <b>the scenes their youth</b> ...."</i></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">It was a <b><u>military <i>medical</i></u> diagnosis</b> <i>principally</i>, and was considered <b>a <i><u>serious</u></i> medical problem</b> by <b>The North</b> in <b>The American Civil War :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><u><b>In the first two years of The War</b></u>, there were reported <b>2588 cases </b>of <b>nostalgia</b>, and <b>13 <u>deaths</u></b> from this cause. These numbers scarcely express the <u>real</u> extent to which nostalgia influenced the <b>sickness</b> and <b><u>mortality</u> of the army.</b> To the <u>depressing influence</u> of <b>home-sickness </b>must be attributed <b>the fatal <u>result</u> </b>in <b>many</b> cases which might <u>otherwise</u> have terminated <b>favourably</b>. </i></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>— "<i>Sanitary Memoirs of the War,</i>" </b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>U.S. Sanitary Commission, N.Y.: 1867</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Transferred sense (the main modern one) of<b> "wistful yearning for the past"</b> is recorded by 1920, perhaps from such use of <i>nostalgie</i> in French literature. <b>The <u>longing</u> for a distant <i>place</i></b> also necessarily involves a <b><i>separation</i> </b>in<b> <u>time</u>.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Related entries & more</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>nostalgic</u> (adj.)</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">1782, in <u>medical writings</u>, "<b>relating to, characteristic of, or affected with nostalgia, homesick</b>" (in <b>nostalgic <u>insanity</u></b>), from nostalgia + -ic. The modern <u><i>weaker</i></u> sense of <b>"evoking a wistful and sentimental yearning for the past"</b> is by 1842. Related: Nostalgically.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Related entries & more</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"> </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>homesickness</u> (n.)</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">1756, translating German Heimweh, from Heim "home" (see home (n.)) + Weh "woe, pain;" the compound is from Swiss dialect, expressing a longing for the mountains, and was introduced to other European languages 17c. by Swiss mercenaries. Also see nostalgia.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Related entries & more</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"> </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Nestor</u> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">name for a counselor wise from experience, or, generally, the oldest and most experienced man of a class or company, 1580s, from Greek Nestōr, name of the aged and wise hero in the "Iliad," king of Pylos, who outlived three generations. Klein says the name is literally "one who blesses," and is related to nostimos "blessed;" Watkins connects it with the root of the first element in nostalgia.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Related entries & more</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"> </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>harness</u> (n.)</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">c. 1300, <b>"personal fighting equipment, body armor,"</b> also <b>"armor or trappings of a war-horse,"</b> from Old French harnois, a noun of broad meaning: "arms, equipment; harness; male genitalia; tackle; household equipment" (12c.), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse *hernest "provisions for an army," from herr "army" (see harry (v.)) + nest "provisions" (see nostalgia). Non-military sense of "fittings for a beast of burden" is from early 14c. German Harnisch "harness, armor" is the French word, borrowed into Middle High German. The Celtic words are believed to be also from French, as are Spanish arnes, Portuguese arnez, Italian arnese. Prive harness (late 14c.) was a Middle English term for<b> "sex organs."</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Related entries & more</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"> </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>Madeleine</b></u> </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">fem. proper name, variation of Madeline. The kind of small, rich confection is attested from 1845, said in OED to be named for Madeleine Paulmier, 19c. French pastry cook; any use with a sense of<b> "small thing that evokes powerful nostalgia"</b> is due to <b>Proust</b> (1922).</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Related entries & more</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"> </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>nineties</u> (n.)</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">1857 as the years of someone's life between 90 and 99; from 1848 as <b>the tenth decade of years in a given century</b>; 1849 with reference to <b><u>Fahrenheit</u> temperature. </b>See <u><b>ninety</b></u>.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><br /></i></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Many still live who remember those days; if the old men cannot tell you the exact date, they will say: 'It were in the nineties;' (etc.) </i></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><br /></i></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>— Chambers's Journal, </b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Nov. 1, 1856</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Related: <b><u>Ninetyish</u> "characteristic of the (eighteen-) nineties" </b>(1909). In Britain, <b>the naughty nineties </b>was a popular name 1920s-30s for the <b>1890s</b>, based on the notion of <b>a relaxing of morality and mood</b> in contrast to <u>earlier</u> Victorian times. In U.S., <b>gay nineties</b> in reference to the same decade is attested from 1927, and was the title of a regular nostalgia feature in "<b>Life</b>" magazine about that time.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The long, dreary blue-law Sunday afternoons were periods of the Nineties which no amount of rosy retrospect will ever be able to recall as gay, especially to a normal healthy boy to whom all activities were taboo except G. A. Henty and the bound volumes of Leslie's Weekly of the Civil War. </i></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>— Life magazine, </b></font></div><div style="text-align: right;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Sept. 1, 1927</b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"> </font></div></div><div><br /></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-19786918891069241132024-03-17T07:27:00.000-07:002024-03-17T13:53:25.074-07:00Cosmic Edge-Lords <div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1215" data-original-width="1620" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHufCj_0fWstwuMIJtdhDPMbHfONqlozpwE7eNin-ytJR8Kciy2iPiFiBK0wx7cYhBWoUt6eJG6OUSbu7EyHUstn9VjgddmX0vMUEuA1lYhA7LkKNphV18ABsu6m1m3hAZGN9PXKLJ7aEMQmG6ATt7k_3uYotUG0i-vLlTrdvuDCr2GfEpauE0VoO0JqI/w640-h480/IMG_4613.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" id="id_8f81_da38_3f38_d32f" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/drive-viewer/AEYmBYR-5ZxfPeqdXIPx0O0DkmeHIbJfwJl991b4lv_e9DD4uzioev9pQODEfz5pE9IsUdYkZq_U5j6f9pdoN4LGuPSb7igi" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br /><br /><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>SCULLY</u> :</b></font></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">No exam has been done?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>The Sheriff</u> : </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Uh ... <b>No, <u>Ma'am</u>.</b> Once I heard <b><i>y'all</i></b> was interested </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">I figured we'd best leave it </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">to </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>The Experts. </b>(</span><i style="font-family: Georgia;">Scully smiles broadly</i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><i>Now</i></b>, uh ... <b><u>that</u></b> can't be </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">what it <i><b>looks</b></i> like, <b><u>right</u>?</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>That <u>depends</u></b> on <b>what <u>you</u><i> think</i> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">it <b>looks like, Sheriff Hartwell. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Vampires</b> have <u><b>always</b></u> been <b>with Us</b>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">in <b>ancient myths</b> and <b>stories</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">passed down from <b>early Man. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>Scully stands behind Mulder, smiling, eyes wide, </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>rocks from side to side, goofing around</i>) </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">From the <b>Babylonian Ekimu</b> to the <b>Chinese Kuang-Shi </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">to <b>Motetz Dam of the Hebrews</b>, the <b>Mormo </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">of<b> ancient Greece and Rome*</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">to the more familiar </font><b style="font-family: Georgia;">Nosferatu </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">of</span><b style="font-family: Georgia;"> Transylvania.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Mormo.* </b><u>Yeah</u>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">SCULLY<b>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">In short, Sheriff, <b>no</b>. This <i><u>can't</u></i> be what it looks like. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I think what we're dealing with here is </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">simply a case of <b>some lunatic.</b> (<i>She chuckles</i>) </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Who, uh, has watched too many Bela Lugosi movies. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">He <u>wishes</u> that he could transfigure himself</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"> into a creature of the night.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">Yeah. Okay. Uh ... what she said, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">that's what I'm thinking, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">and, uh ... Yeah. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">(<i>Scully loves being right</i>)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><br /></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Still, that leaves us in something of a quandary </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">because <b>there are as <i><u>many</u></i> different </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>kinds of vampires</b> as there are </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>cultures</b> that <b><u>fear</u> them. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>Scully yawns and covers her mouth</i>) </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Some</i> don't even subsist on <u><b>blood</b></u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>The Bulgarian Ubour</b>, for example, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>eats only <u>manure</u>.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>SCULLY</u>:</b> </font><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>sarcastically</i>) </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i>Thank </i>you</b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>MULDER</b></u>: </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">To <b>The Serbs</b>, <b>a <u>prime</u> indicator </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>of vampirism</b> is <b><i>red</i> <u>hair</u>. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>raises his hand to Scully's head</i>) </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Some</u> vampires are thought to be <i><b>eternal</b></i>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Others are thought to have </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">a <b>Life-span</b> of only <u><b>40 days</b></u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>Scully's pointing at her watch, rolling her eyes, carrying on.</i>) </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>Sunlight</b></u> kills <i>certain</i> vampires </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">while <b>others come </b>and <b>go </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>as they please</b>, <b>Day</b> <i>or</i> <b>night</b>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>Scully sighs deeply from boredom</i>).</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>SCULLY</u>:</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">If <b>There's A <u>Point</u></b>, Mulder, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">please </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">feel free to come to it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u></b>: </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>My <u>Point</u> is</b> that <b>We Don't <i>know</i> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><u>exactly</u><b> </b></font><b style="font-family: Georgia;">what we're <i>looking</i> for. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">What <i><b>kind</b></i> of vampire, <i><b>or</b></i> <u>if you <i><b>prefer</b></i></u>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">what kind of vampire </font><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><u>this</u> killer </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><i>wishes</i> </b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">himself to</span><b style="font-family: Georgia;"> <u>be</u>.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>Mulder notices the untied shoes on the corpse </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>and stands with his head between his feet</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>SCENE 19 </b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>TODAY X FILES OFFICE</b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b><br /></b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>SCULLY</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Now, <b><i><u>why</u></i> is it so important </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">that <b>his</b> <b><u>shoes</u> were untied?</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I'm <u>getting</u> to it.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>CEMETERY - DAY</b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER VOICE OVER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">So, while You stayed behind to do <b>The Autopsy</b>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>The Sheriff</u> drove me to the town cemetery.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>Hartwell opens the gate and they walk through. </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><u>This</u> cemetery is certainly <u><b>not</b></u> off the beaten path, </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>the creepier the better</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u><br /></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Agent Mulder, you mind me </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">asking you why we're out here?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>:</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>Historically</b></u>, cemeteries were thought to be </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>a haven</b> for vampires, as are <b>castles</b>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>catacombs</b> and <b>swamps</b>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">but unfortunately, you don't </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>have</i> any of those.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>We <u>used</u> to have swamps</b> only </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>The EPA</b> made us take to </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">calling them ‘<b>wetlands</b>’.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>:</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Yeah. So, we're out here looking </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">for <u>any signs of <b>vampiric</b> activity</u>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Which</u> <b>would be <i>like</i></b>, uh...?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>:</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Broken or shifted tombstones. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>The absence of birds singing.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>There you go</u>. Cuz I ain't <i>hearing</i> any birds singing. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Right? <u>Course</u>, <b>it's winter,</b> and <b>We ain't </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>got</u> no birds</b>. <u>Is there anything <i>else</i></u>?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Mulder</u> :</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>A faint groaning coming from under the earth. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The sound of <b>manducation</b> -- of the creature </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>eating</i> its own <b>death shroud</b>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u><br /></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Nope. No manuh... ma-ma...</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b><br /></b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>:</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Manducation</b>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Manducation. No.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b><br /></b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>:</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Now, Sheriff, I know my methods </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">may seem a little odd to you, but..</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Hey, look, y'all work for the federal </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">guv'mint and that's all I need </font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">to know. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">I mean, CIA, Secret Service --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">-- y'all run the show, so --</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>MULDER</u>: </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">It's just that my gut instinct tells me </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">that the killer will visit this place. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">That it may well hold some fascination -- </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">some kind of siren call for him, you know. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>A horn honks</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>RONNIE</u>:</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Howdy, Sheriff.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>The teen delivery boy is in a red car on the street, a Gremlin</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">Oh, hey, Ronnie. How's it going?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">RONNIE: </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Can't complain.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Well, all right, then. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>Ronnie drives off</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">MULDER: </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Maybe after nightfall, Sheriff, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">but he'll come. Oh, he'll come.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>we watch the car drive off down the road</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>SCENE 20 </b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>CEMETERY - NIGHT</b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>Mulder looking around with his flashlight</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER VOICE OVER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">So, we staked out the cemetery.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>SCENE 21 </b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>TODAY X FILES OFFICE</b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>SCULLY</b></u>: </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Mulder, <b><u>shoelaces</u></b>?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Hmm?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>SCULLY</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>On The Corpse.</b> You were going to tell me </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">what was <b>Meaningful</b> about </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">finding </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><u>untied</u> shoelaces.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I'm <u>getting</u> to it.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">SCENE 22 </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">CEMETERY - NIGHT</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>Mulder is spreading sunflower seeds </i></font><i style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">around </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">the cemetery, he gets into Sheriff's car</i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">MULDER:<b> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Sunflower seed?</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>He accidentally</i> <u><b>drops</b></u> <i>some</i>) <u>Sorry</u>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>No</b></u>, thanks. <b>Do you <i>mind</i> </b>... (<i>he picks up a seed that <b>fell</b> </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>from Mulder's bag and <b>tosses it</b></i>) Do you mind </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">me asking you <b>what you were ...</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Historically</u>, <b>certain types of <u>seeds</u></b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">were thought to <b><i>fascinate</i> vampires. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Chiefly <b>oats</b> and <b>millet</b>, but you </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">make-do with what you <u>have</u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Remember when I said before </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">that we didn't know what <u><i>type</i></u> </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">of </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><b>vampire we were looking for?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b><b> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Yeah.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Well, <i>oddly enough</i>, </b>there seems </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">to be <b><u>one</u> <i>obscure</i> fact </b>which </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">in <b><u>all</u></b> the stories told </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">by the different cultures </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">is <b><u>exactly</u> the same</b>, and that's </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">that<b> vampires are <i>really</i>, </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u><i>really</i></u> obsessive-compulsive. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Yeah, you toss a handful of seeds </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">at one, <b>no matter <i>what</i> he's doing </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">he's got to <b><u>stop</u></b> and <b><i>pick it up</i>. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">If he sees <b>a knotted rope</b>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>he's <u><i>got</i></u> to untie it. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>It's in His <u><i>Nature</i></u>. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">In fact, that's why,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">I'm <i>guessing</i> </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">that </span><font face="Georgia"><b>our victim's </b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia"><b><u>shoelaces</u></b> </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">were untied.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b><b> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Yeah, <i>obsessive</i>... <b>Like <u>Rain Man.</u> </b>(<i>Mulder nods</i>) </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">It's like when that old boy dropped them matchsticks, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">he <b><i>had</i></b> to pick them all up. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Same <u>thing</u>, right?</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Well, he <i><b>didn't</b></i> <u>actually</u> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><u>pick</u> </i>them up. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>He <u>counted</u> them.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b><b> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Oh, yeah. <b><u>247</u></b>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Right off the top of your head</u>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Well, <b><u>if he <i>had</i></u></b> picked them up,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><b><font face="Georgia">he </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><i>would</i></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b> </b>have been </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Yeah. I'll tell you what. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I <u><i>know</i></u> <b>I'm in <u>Law-enforcement</u></b>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">but </font><u style="font-family: Georgia;">I'd</u><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> like to take </span><i style="font-family: Georgia;">him</i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">to <b>Vegas</b> <u>myself</u>. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Am I right</i>?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Well, <b><u>that</u></b> would be <b>illegal</b>, <i>right</i>?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>The Sheriff</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">He's like a little <u>calculator</u>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>MULDER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Yeah.</font></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b style="text-decoration: underline;">EndNotes</b> :</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">* : “Mormu. Yeah.” Is The Sherrif answering The Question implicit in Mulder’s colloray, qualifying his response to The Sherriff own <i><u>initial</u></i> Question…? </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia"><u><b>This Line of Enquiry</b></u>, more fully-explored </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">by way </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">of being <b>Gamed-out </b>via<b> Free-Play </b>would, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><u>therefore</u>, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">run as follows :</span></span></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-83616529611601632832024-03-17T07:20:00.000-07:002024-03-17T07:20:09.592-07:00My Training is Secret<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/DKTrKBAasNI?si=9uMp-EX_XA0_waxi" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DKTrKBAasNI/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ghostbusters 2: Louis vs Slimer deleted scene Completed</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-12318308402692249922024-03-16T18:14:00.000-07:002024-03-16T18:22:07.111-07:00So What? 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="1050" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFcqZ87Z8jiORGeiF0afnWIvTXr7vGBJJE-GDP_YBKIT5GXIRlUKuPM3jU2_iike7-7mwa9XxVRf6NyXrLwV2lCcrOB1VLUgYqwhT-l-AQV63P-XkxVVI9tlLcZUXbqNZv9uFqwr2Usfe4ByowBVOUX0r6ZdxccvW_EbYsCCamEJ9J1ygLTcDd06I1Lgo/w440-h640/IMG_4868.jpg" width="440" /></a></div><br /><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The sun is shining brightly and Liberty </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>is back on her pedestal where she belongs. </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The Mayor and a host of officials are commemorating her return. </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The Ghostbusters, Dana, Janine and </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Louis are there as honoured guests. </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The Mayor comes out with a giant gold key, </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>symbolic of The Key to the City.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><br /></i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i><font face="Georgia" size="5">Notice Janosz Poha and Jack Hardemeyer </font></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i><font face="Georgia" size="5">standing to the left of the podium.</font></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The Mayor shakes hands with Peter, then hands the key over to him. Peter accepts it, then hands it down to the other members of the team.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><u>VENKMAN</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(looking up at the statue)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Pretty impressive, huh?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>SPENGLER</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>musing</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">It's probably the first thing my grandparents </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">saw when they came to this country.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>VENKMAN</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">From where -- <b>Neptune</b>?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>SPENGLER</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They came from Ostrov in Eastern Poland.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>VENKMAN</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Ostrov? I've been there. Good party town.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>STANTZ</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>in a similarly reflective mood</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">My great-grandparents were <b>Swiss</b>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I still have the pictures they took of </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The Statue from the boat when they arrived.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>VENKMAN</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Oh, right, you told me that. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They came to America seeking other </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">kinds of cheese, as I recall. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">How about you, Winston?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>WINSTON</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">My people weren't taking any pictures from those slave ships, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">man. And there wasn't any Statue in Charleston Harbor </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">to welcome them, either. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">What are you, Dana?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>VENKMAN</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Miss Blue Blood? Her family's </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">been here since the year 12.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>DANA</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">That's not true. It was <b>1620</b>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>VENKMAN</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Same difference.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>STANTZ</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">What's your story, Pete?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>VENKMAN</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Me? I'm a little of everything. Some Irish, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">some German, some French, Dutch -- </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">the women in my family slept around.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><font>And that's </font><span>what made this country great.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>DANA</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">That's a terrible thing to say.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>VENKMAN</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">So what?<b> It's a free country</b>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>looking up at the statue</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Thanks, Lib.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">They all look up at the Statue.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>EXT. STATUE OF LIBERTY - HEAD OF STATUE - DAY</b></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><br /></i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Slimer flies out one of the observation windows, </i>THEME MUSIC KICKS IN <i>and the</i> CAMERA PULLS UP <i>and</i> AWAY FROM <i>the island </i>TO<i> a </i>HIGH SHOT <i>of the Statue, lower Manhattan and the shining sea beyond.</i></font></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><br /></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-77535996554628539622024-03-16T16:53:00.000-07:002024-03-16T16:53:17.123-07:00I LIKE That Shirt, Friend! <div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aRECCmgsv2Fka-_soAik4MdAFjIkTBdUU1TET239tvVl7Dt9mkCNBnIr7pCep6EK4_QJcOCMSeMXWoztk8aSvuy8a5AiXE3wFlm5JRydRw6YqKhMhyMS9U1MBj4fE_oz0tgJlJopWbS2-87pkZ7j-16o4QfevEI3ShEmk5kPa69hHX8_n6Buph7yPaE/s2560/IMG_4862.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aRECCmgsv2Fka-_soAik4MdAFjIkTBdUU1TET239tvVl7Dt9mkCNBnIr7pCep6EK4_QJcOCMSeMXWoztk8aSvuy8a5AiXE3wFlm5JRydRw6YqKhMhyMS9U1MBj4fE_oz0tgJlJopWbS2-87pkZ7j-16o4QfevEI3ShEmk5kPa69hHX8_n6Buph7yPaE/w640-h360/IMG_4862.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Stantz, Spengler and Winston come downstairs wearing new Ghostbuster uniforms. The uniforms are ridiculously overdone and over-decorated with military berets topping off the whole ensemble. Venkman notes the unhappy looks on their faces.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">VENKMAN</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(trying to bluff his way through)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Incredible! This is a very good look.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">WINSTON</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">We look like the Bronxville High School Marching Band.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">VENKMAN</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Will you just trust me on this? It's all part of the new plan -- higher visibility, lower overhead, deeper market penetration, bigger profits. Just wait until we open the boutique.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">STANTZ</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">What boutique?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">VENKMAN</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The Ghostbusters Gift Boutique. It's a natural. I've been working on it all day.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(he reads from a list)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Ghostbuster <b>tee-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, visors, beach towels, mugs, calendars, stationery, balloons, stickers, Frisbees, paperweights, souvenirs, tote bags, party supplies, motor oil, toys, video games.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(suddenly inspired)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Ooh, I'm grossing myself out -- Ghostbusters breakfast cereal.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">WINSTON</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Breakfast cereal.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">VENKMAN</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(thinks better of it)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Okay, forget the cereal. But this could be a gold mine. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">We get this junk cheap from Taiwan or Korea and all we have to do is stick our logo on it. We'll be laughing.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">SPENGLER</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Our primary concern should be the continued integrity of the biosphere. It's a responsibility shared by all conscious beings.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">VENKMAN</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Isn't that what I just said?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">STANTZ</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(to Venkman)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Look, Venkman. We don't have time for this. We've got customers waiting-- paying customers. You can wear pink huggies and go-go boots if you want. We're sticking with the old coveralls.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They go upstairs to change uniforms. Venkman follows them to the foot of the stairs.</font></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-14136327965425282962024-03-16T09:31:00.000-07:002024-03-16T15:05:54.196-07:00Let’s Run Some Red-Lights <div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2T1p-7y81ZqSDWnnhqFRAieL4_4WSN5vTFloMZXd1cKWo9gmdyvPoM5irN5XrXLWHcj9XFWzoQ88qCNJMJ5njFgYG5lZvOCtxPCg9mkAcajO2MlggVGL4pYWk71Ah_EFMDRzfvkfmSOjdFO0QUuHXcZX25HTQzGj-OIWxilnwPI_ZJsPdUE0R27j_KY4/s500/IMG_4756.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="500" height="266" id="id_4603_736f_6938_d7f9" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2T1p-7y81ZqSDWnnhqFRAieL4_4WSN5vTFloMZXd1cKWo9gmdyvPoM5irN5XrXLWHcj9XFWzoQ88qCNJMJ5njFgYG5lZvOCtxPCg9mkAcajO2MlggVGL4pYWk71Ah_EFMDRzfvkfmSOjdFO0QUuHXcZX25HTQzGj-OIWxilnwPI_ZJsPdUE0R27j_KY4/w640-h266/IMG_4756.jpeg" style="height: auto; width: 640px;" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u><b>EXT. MUSEUM - DAY (LATER)</b></u></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The Ghostbusters cross to</i> ECTO-1A.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">SPENGLER</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">There's <u>definitely</u> something going on in that studio. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The PKE levels were max-plus and the </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Giga-meter was showing all red.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">WINSTON</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I'd put my money on that Vigo character.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">VENKMAN</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Yeah, that's a safe bet.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>to Stantz</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">You and Spengman see what else you can </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">dig up on Vigo and this little weasel Poha. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Those two were <u>made</u> for each other.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">INT. ECTO-2 - DAY (LATER)</font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The Ghostbusters are driving back to the firehouse. Stantz is at the wheel. His eyes are vacant, he seems distracted and very tense. Stantz swerves suddenly and HONKS the horn angrily.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">STANTZ</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(to another driver)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><b>Idiot!</b></i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(honking)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Move it, you jerk!</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Venkman and Winston exchange surprised looks.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">EXT. STREET - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Stantz drives extremely fast, </i>HONKING<i> vindictively, weaving dangerously through traffic.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">INT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)</font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Winston looks at Ray, concerned.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">WINSTON</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Going a little fast, aren't we, Ray?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Stantz turns on him.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">STANTZ</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>viciously</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Are <i><b>you</b></i> telling me how to drive?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">WINSTON</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">No, I just thought --</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">STANTZ</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Well don't think!</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>He</i> HONKS <i>again and tromps hard on the accelerator.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">EXT. STREET - DAY (CONTINUOUS)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Ecto-2 is now barreling down the avenue. </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Pedestrians leap to safety as Stantz runs a red light.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">INT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>They hang on to the safety straps as Stantz continues his maniacal ride.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">WINSTON</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>to Stantz, really worried now</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Are you crazy, man? <b>You're going to <i>kill</i> somebody!</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Stantz looks at him and smile demonically.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9gYlo4pfb0WOHqDbN9e3f04ya0S3dH5ds5TMUEt7Zl70NqwQRXTwV2Vzv-HkAT8sobJTlbK7N8sZmNFfHudaSpVek0t3cRgSA0vDmZf-gIRi2ZJ8zinoKqxU1wzkJvK1TXYXhhY9LiS6hT2lKJSomgnnOiAIyiE4PVocZVrlk_CRoGMbhC-gwaXPZXo/s800/IMG_4814.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="555" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9gYlo4pfb0WOHqDbN9e3f04ya0S3dH5ds5TMUEt7Zl70NqwQRXTwV2Vzv-HkAT8sobJTlbK7N8sZmNFfHudaSpVek0t3cRgSA0vDmZf-gIRi2ZJ8zinoKqxU1wzkJvK1TXYXhhY9LiS6hT2lKJSomgnnOiAIyiE4PVocZVrlk_CRoGMbhC-gwaXPZXo/w444-h640/IMG_4814.jpeg" width="444" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">STANTZ</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>No</u>, I'm going to kill <u>everybody</u>!</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>He swerves off the road.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">EXT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The car heads right for a big tree.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">INT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>At the last possible moment, Winston cold-cocks Stantz, grabs the wheel and steps across to stomp on the brakes.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">EXT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The car skids into the tree and stops. The Ghostbusters stumble out dazed and shaken, but unhurt. Stantz rubs his eyes and looks at the others, completely at a loss.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">STANTZ</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(himself again)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">What happened?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">VENKMAN</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">You just picked up three penalty points </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">on your driver's license.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">WINSTON</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Are you all right?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">STANTZ</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Yeah, I guess so. It was the strangest thing. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>I knew what I was doing but I couldn't stop. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">This really terrible feeling came over me and -- I don't know -- </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>I just felt like driving into that tree </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>and ending it all. </b>Whew! Sorry, boys.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>They inspect the damage to the car.</i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">VENKMAN</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">(<i>confidentially, to Spengler</i>)</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Watch him, Egon. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Don't even let him shave.</font></div></div><div><br /></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-34232480336900251402024-03-16T01:29:00.000-07:002024-03-16T01:37:26.218-07:00The Elder Gods<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3cQh5UgcCXoOaJzzhkiDHbKLhHGQ_wEfHbDgmsh2foXuczcHZ1S6Yva0S6hgYlrifJ1hBjVCgyAURIWhdetH-wjPCfJnadGz1yYINua55380krCRnbwypu_CCRzC-eBaW5iLalBmt9E5G7FliLs3WIv3_ZvTTC3uOMelXG6NyS9bq8CIh1VMC1TuZ7n0/s1734/IMG_4639.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="1734" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3cQh5UgcCXoOaJzzhkiDHbKLhHGQ_wEfHbDgmsh2foXuczcHZ1S6Yva0S6hgYlrifJ1hBjVCgyAURIWhdetH-wjPCfJnadGz1yYINua55380krCRnbwypu_CCRzC-eBaW5iLalBmt9E5G7FliLs3WIv3_ZvTTC3uOMelXG6NyS9bq8CIh1VMC1TuZ7n0/w640-h480/IMG_4639.png" width="640" id="id_a81_e897_174f_7181" style="width: 640px; height: auto;"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">“I've thought of this from a from a narrative </font></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><div>point of view or from a symbolic point of view — </div><div>in Old stories in folktales and fairy tales you often have uh, </div><div>um — <b>Cyclops</b> or <b>one-eyed Giants</b>, and there's a </div><div><u>sexual</u> connotation to that which is which is apropos, </div><div>that the psychoanalysts would would certainly point out, </div><div>but The <b>One Eye</b> Idea is that <b>this thing is <i>gigantic</i> </b></div><div>and <b>wants ONE thing</b>, and so that's another way </div><div>that is conceptualising the fundamental </div><div>structure of <b>the human psyche </b>is that </div><div>it's <b>a Dwelling-Place</b> full of <b>one-eyed Giants </b></div><div>and <b>they're <i>constantly</i> at War </b>— one of them </div><div>wants to be the largest ONE Giant </div><div>and <b><u>dominate</u> everything <i>else</i>.</b>"</div></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br><br><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/KeFIQmVPLRI?si=YPqvo1aBgY7f_kKf" width="480" id="id_9902_b9d4_e8e0_4bec"></iframe></span></b></u></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Elder Gods</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"So one of the claims -- I suppose this would be an <i><b>Enlightenment</b></i> claim is that people do have a drive to knowledge and that that drive is in fact what underlies the production of such things as philosophy but <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85)" style="text-align: start;">Nietzsche</span> <u><i>questions</i></u> that because he's trying to bring us back to consideration of the fact that you can't <i>separate</i> the Philosopher's Mind from the philosophers being he's first and foremost a living creature and he's up to something and the question is what is it that he's up to and so you can see the earliest manifestations in a paragraph like this of what later developed into deconstructionist thought and that that was mostly French Continental philosophers who pursued that particular line of reasoning and it it is derived exactly from this kind of statement by n so for example someone like Derrida would say say <b>it doesn't <u>matter</u> what the <i>content</i> of the text is</b> what <i>matters</i> is that <b>The Text can be used as a tool for <u>Power</u> </b>and that whether the person who wrote the text knew it or not that's what they were doing and they were doing it in a way to privilege themselves above other people and that's really I would say the fundamental deconstructionist claim and it's a powerful claim it's an utterly corrupt claim but it's a really powerful claim and it's related directly to the sorts of things that n was referring to to in this paragraph what is it that the person's truly up to now the problem with the deconstructionist claim is that it's an it's an open invitation to cynicism to thoughtless cynicism I can just make the presupposition that whatever it is that you're telling me you're you you're telling me merely to dominate regardless of what it is that you claim to be doing well the problem with that approach is that it's predicated on the implicit assumption that the only value that people actually have is the value to is the desire to dominate and of course that's a purely like that could be the case and I also think that it's even reasonable to posit that to some degree that it is the case but to take that from a contributing factor and to make that the highest God because that's essentially what the deconstructionists are doing those are entirely different things and you have to be aware of people who take a single causal element and elevated to the stature of single comprehensive cause you know it's more reasonable to assume that people are complex in their motivations and that many different strands of biological and cultural motivation are in some sense primary and that what happens is that they come together to weave a kind of tapestry rather than to make the automatic assumption that you can reduce the entire set of human motivations to a single principle like that of power now you know I would say nich is also responsible to some degree for the deconstructionist claim that it's power because one of his most famous utterances was that the fundamental motivating force in life is the will to power but he wasn't so much because nich is a subtle thinker he wasn't so much attempting to reduce human motivation to power he was attempting to redefine what it was that we conceptualized as power where that is what the deconstructionists are doing at all because fundamentally they're marxists and they believe that you know they've ins sconed themselves within an economic Viewpoint where within a philosophical Viewpoint where economics is Paramount and where all that matters is power construed as socioeconomic domination fundamentally you know and that's in in turn is embedded in metaphysics that's even deeper which is a metaphysics that presumes that people are are fundamentally materialist and all of those things are qu you know all of those things are Highly Questionable so I'm going to skip ahead a little bit in the paragraph when Nature talks about the motivations of you might consider them people who are working in the middle ranks of bureaucracies whether they're scientific or otherwise so they're in some sense acting as cogs in a particular machine and so that's what he's describing here he says in the case of Scholars or in the case of really scientific men it may be there may really be such a thing as an Impulse to knowledge some kind of small independent Clockwork which when well wound up Works away industriously to that end without the rest of the scholarly impulses taking any material part therein the actual interests of the scholar therefore are generally in quite another Direction it is the family or in moneymaking or in politics it is in fact almost indifferent at what point of research his little machine is placed and whether the hopeful young worker becomes a good philologist someone who studied the origin of words a mushroom Specialist or a chemist he's not characterized becoming this by this he's not characterized by becoming this or that nich's point there fundamentally is that even when you do analyze people who in whom the the will to knowledge might actually be operative even though he wouldn't be willing to Grant it the status of highest motivating power that even in those people people where that will to knowledge does exist the probability that that is in turn subordinated to some other principle that's higher in the value hierarchy is very very high and it's hard to tell exactly what that additional principle might be but he points out such things as well maybe they're primarily interested in serving the interests of their family or they're primarily interested in making money or maybe they're primarily interested in status and maybe they're interested in stat status becomes it because it makes them more sexually attractive and that sort of thing so but the the the question of what is it that's lurking in the background is always Paramount so another detour in this particular paragraph whoever considers the fundamental impulses of man with a view to determining how far they may have here acted as inspiring geni or as demons will find that they have all practiced philosophy at one time or another and that each of them would have been only too glad to look upon itself as the ultimate end of existence and the legitimate Lord over all of the other impulses that's another like Beyond Good and Evil to think of it as a book is a really foolish framework you know because this is what a book is when people think about a book you know it's like a material entity it's it's 8 in high and 6 in wide and 2 inch thick and weighs a pound and it's made out of paper and it's between two two covers you know and that's a materialist that's the a prior sort of axiomatic view of a book but n's Beyond Good and Evil isn't a book at all it's a series of bombs and each sentence is a bomb and each sentence blows things up that people don't even know exist and so one of the things with this sentence for example here's how he's conceptualizing a human being so the first thing he talks about is that the F there are fundamental impulses of human beings okay so that that BS the questions well what do you mean by impulse and what do you mean by fundamental and both of those are extraordinarily complicated problems so an Impulse you can think of an Impulse as a drive you could think about it as a biological Instinct you could think about it as an aim or a goal you could think about it as an act of will like there's there's endless questions that that hang off that question but we could start with the idea that we perhaps can't Define it but we are willing to go with the proposition that people do have impulses and I think maybe that's manifest to you more most particularly when you're attempting to do something voluntarily and something involuntarily interferes with that you know so maybe you're sitting down to to try to get some work done and the work is not of any particular intrinsic interest but you regard it as necessary you know necessary element in some higher order scheme and so you're attempting to organize yourself so you will in fact concentr on that particular relatively mundane activity but what you find when you sit down to actually engage in that is you can't do it you have to go do the dishes or you have to clean under the bed or you have to have a sexual fantasy or you or or there's some other thing that you could do that's useful but that you wouldn't normally do that you'll go do instead or that you fall asleep or that you get hungry or like there's an endless number of let's call them impulses that might arise to interfere with your conscious movement forward well exactly what are those things well </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">n certainly conceptualizes the human being as a place where those things live and he does mean live too because he wouldn't refer to them as de demons or or Genies without introducing the metaphorical conception of something that lives and so partly what n reveals in those sentences is that he conceptualizes a human being as the the Dwelling Place of spirits and some of them are Genie let's say that's the root word of genius that's the terribly powerful thing that exists in the terribly small compartment right that you have to call forth and some of them are demons and demons are things that have their own autonomous will and that generally aren't aiming for the good so then so those are all things n just lays out as implicit parts of the sentence so he activates all those ideas whether you know or not in your mind to the degree that you process the sentence and those things start to take on life of of their own those ideas and so then he he adds another dimension of complexity to that by saying well you you're full of demons and and and and genies and they're all doing their own thing whatever that happens to be but each of them if left to their own devices would it attempt to remake the entire world in their form and so I I </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I've thought of this from a from a narrative point of view or from a symbolic point of view in in in in Old stories in folktales and fairy tales you often have uh um Cyclops or oneeyed Giants and there's a sexual connotation to that which is which is app propo that the psychoanalysts would would certainly point out but the one eye idea is that this thing is gigantic and wants one thing and so that's another way that n is conceptualizing the fundamental structure of the human psyche it's a Dwelling Place full of oneeyed Giants and they're constantly well one thing one way of looking at it is they're constantly at War one of them wants to be the largest onee Giant and dominate everything else </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and then one of the things that so n takes that argument further and he says not only is this always happening in human beings but that if you look at philosophy what it is is it's a continual revelation of the attempt of some singular minded psychic monster psychological monster to dominate the entire psychological structure and therefore the entire cultural structure and therefore the entire world and then you can you can see in that the entire religious structure struggle of mankind to take this vast polytheistic vision of reality and to organize it into some sort of monotheistic and integrated structure which you could also consider indistinguishable from the civilizing the impulse that operates in human beings to become civilized because on the one hand it might be a terrible thing that one oneeyed monster emerges to attempt to dominate all the others but then on the other hand there's no difference between that and organizing something because to organize something is to bring it all into a hierarchical structure with some sort of singular value at the Forefront and then the question might be well what should that singular value be and then n would that ties the whole argument back into the first sentences that he wrote at the beginning of the paragraph which is is well what is it that the philosopher is up to what is the force that he's serving what is the unifying impulse that's another way of looking at it if there's a unifying impulse and he's not only Fallen prey to some internal demon if there's a unifying impulse to bring all of this together into some sort of functional structure what exactly might that look like for every impulse is imperious and as such attempts to philosophize that's part of that sort of nich's idea of Will To Power in in its nent form like all of these unconscious entities that inhabit the human psyche are all alive and they're trying to live they're trying to they're trying to climb up the dominance Archy and dominate because of course that's partly what life does because let's say from an evolutionary perspective and this is probably more true for males because they're less effective in their attempts to replicate the distinction between climbing up a dominance hierarchy whatever that might happen to be and success is there may be no distinction at all and then you might say well that just shows that there's nothing but will to power but that still doesn't answer one of the most fundamental questions is that power in relationship to what because that's the question okay so you can shut that off</span></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-52811702941656439532024-03-15T19:51:00.000-07:002024-03-15T20:16:44.664-07:00Monsters<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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/></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/70QLou9HjUw?si=EZsliuqIwcsZRt6N" width="480"></iframe></span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Brood — "I Disgust You"</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ77HR6NsQAFrBShIbuGNDmUinJCiasVGe7es00WrsbIYqq6qWVMXrq0qao19HNjLbdKdEhLlZFEDISCx_x19BNuBX4uHFQTqG17JRJjSlI-r41HoZ8Psz6RNQUWqdnGnZ0oHcRkwOMyVYnjwi5F2b6ZDeGtXxEtEK0rRLXBViZ-8dYmlW_z9WpNdpEz4/s2160/IMG_4703.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1209" data-original-width="2160" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ77HR6NsQAFrBShIbuGNDmUinJCiasVGe7es00WrsbIYqq6qWVMXrq0qao19HNjLbdKdEhLlZFEDISCx_x19BNuBX4uHFQTqG17JRJjSlI-r41HoZ8Psz6RNQUWqdnGnZ0oHcRkwOMyVYnjwi5F2b6ZDeGtXxEtEK0rRLXBViZ-8dYmlW_z9WpNdpEz4/w640-h358/IMG_4703.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Canadian Police Pathologist</u> :</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Our friend has very strange eyes.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">They have <b>irises</b>, but <b>no retinas</b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I should think </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">his </b></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">vision of the world </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">is very <i>distorted</i>.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4EB380S6XX59eJjT750U2PI1ak7Py4-4CooPR6RhSvOKnysHepAHfeayHe0N8hrkBz43Kk3mFF11WVJw3hUkp7SSE0V2e-D0WXgBIQj8S3OoptYTQcXzB2roF8leNqnpbsN_8k5oCvupQliBhhyWwwzY0T7CvTAz2bdR3FUQxe0Ha_maAsiKdBdiQudo/s2160/IMG_4696%202.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4EB380S6XX59eJjT750U2PI1ak7Py4-4CooPR6RhSvOKnysHepAHfeayHe0N8hrkBz43Kk3mFF11WVJw3hUkp7SSE0V2e-D0WXgBIQj8S3OoptYTQcXzB2roF8leNqnpbsN_8k5oCvupQliBhhyWwwzY0T7CvTAz2bdR3FUQxe0Ha_maAsiKdBdiQudo/w640-h480/IMG_4696%202.PNG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I'm pretty certain he sees things </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>only</u> in black-and-white.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">No <u><b>colours</b></u>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The upper lip is <b>cleft</b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Real harelip, but the palate is not.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And <b>the tongue is too thick</b> and </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>inflexible</b> for proper speech.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It has no teeth,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">but you can get a pretty nasty bite...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">from these strange, beak-like gums.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Canadian Homicide Detective</u> :</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why did it die?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Canadian Police Pathologist</u> :</span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I found some sort of collapsed, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">fleshy sac </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">between the little fellow's shoulder blades.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It contains traces of a solid nutrient material...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A bit like the yolk sac of certain fish, or a camel's hump.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Basically, it's a gas tank that was full at birth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Once the hump material is completely assimilated,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I think the creature simply starves to death.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Runs out of gas, so to speak.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And that brings us to the last point of interest.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There's an external deformity.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I mean, apart from the lack of sexual organs.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It's extremely subtle and extremely provocative.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I wonder if either of you have noticed it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>David Cronenberg's FictionSuit</u> :</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It has no <b><i>navel</i></b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Canadian Homicide Detective</u> :</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No <i>what</i>?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>David Cronenberg's FictionSuit</u> :</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No <b>bellybutton.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The thing has <b>no bellybutton.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Canadian Police Pathologist</u> :</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That's <u>right</u>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And that means this creature </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">has never <i>really</i> <b>been born.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">At least, not the way </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>human beings</b> are born.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Canadian Homicide Detective</u> :</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Jesus.</b></i></span></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-8502057027927039162024-03-15T07:04:00.000-07:002024-03-15T07:04:25.619-07:00Izzy <div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">You know, it really <u>would</u> be </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">quicker to take a plane.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>A plane’s too risky.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>The Country <i>needs</i> us.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">What happened, guys?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They say the building’s </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">too small for this cyclotron.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Get them together with the architects.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">When’s this place supposed to open?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Two months.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Robert, you’re the great improviser, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">but <u>this</u>… </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>you can’t <i><u>do</u></i> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><b>in your head.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Four</u> divisions.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Experimental, theoretical, metallurgical.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Who’s running theoretical?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>I</u></b> am.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">That’s what I was <i>afraid</i> of. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>You’re spread <u>too thin</u>.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">So you take theoretical.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I’m not coming here, Robert.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER</u>: </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Why <i><u>not</u></i>?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">You drop a bomb and it falls </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">on <u>the just</u> <i>and</i> <u>the unjust</u>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>I don’t wish the culmination of three centuries </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>of physics</b> to be a weapon of <b><u>mass</u> destruction.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Izzy…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I don’t know if we can be trusted with such a weapon. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">But I know the Nazis <u><b>can’t</b></u>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>We have no choice.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">Then… </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The <u>second</u> thing you have to do </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">is appoint <b>Hans Bethe </b>to run </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">the theoretical division.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER</u>: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Wait, what was the <u>first</u>?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Take off that <i>ridiculous</i> uniform.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>You’re A Scientist.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER</u>: </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Groves is insisting we join.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Izzy</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Tell Groves to go shit in his hat.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They need us for <b>who we <i>are</i>.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">So <b>be yourself.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Only <b><u>better</u>.</b></font></div></div><div><br /></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-58804686719926180562024-03-14T17:44:00.000-07:002024-03-14T17:44:50.564-07:00Farming Dirt<div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/TqBnlbt7GnU?si=xgJAl-JQxhP2OWs0" width="480"></iframe></span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Callie Yells At Phoebe - Ghostbusters: Afterlife</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">[DOOR CLOSES]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Callie</u> :</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We’re <i><u><b>barely</b></u></i> hanging on here.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>Phoebe Spengler</u> :</b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You don’t <u>understand</u>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>Callie</u> :</b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I understand <b>you drove around town</b>, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">destroying <b>expensive <i>property</i>.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Don’t</b></i> you think <b>Your Father</b> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">came <i>out</i> here for <b>a <u>reason</u>?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>Callie</u> :</b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>No</u>. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">No</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">. I think he was </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">a sad old man </b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">who </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">turned his back on <b>his family, his partners.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And for <i>what</i>? For <b>a stupid farm</b> in </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>a town</b> nobody <i>cares</i> about.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Where, <i>by the way</i>, <u>everybody</u> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">thought <b>he was <u>nuts</u>.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Yeah, great decision, Dad.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>Phoebe Spengler</u> :</b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He was <u>special</u>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He loved <u>science</u>, like me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Why</u></i> didn’t you tell me </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My Grandfather was </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Egon Spengler?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">[♪♪♪]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>Callie</u> :</b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hey, I’m <u>glad</u> you found </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">yourself here. I really am.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But <u>all</u> <b>I</b> see are reminders that </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I didn’t mean a <i>thing</i> to him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>He</u> never cared about me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>Phoebe Spengler</u> :</b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>He’s <u>not</u> nuts.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>Callie</u> :</b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Well, then <b>he’s an asshole.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Welcome to The Family.</span></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-72876371171450441042024-03-14T16:46:00.000-07:002024-03-14T16:55:39.523-07:00 What is The Grail representing, then?<p style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"> </font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4nT_DBAj6JNGQC8K7jqmcUC3_rlzjAbKCcdkun6_AYDIFwggD0U5mOCJMIN7fIQqJve8R-azIYMJDTjzd2q7KHPrPme2MbabYVpv_SRycHoK595JPMlv82Iy-c6keyRJiujC1TzD8b3y5-nBJcKiLiAHq3WnzDZ7UUZ57Iaq9xk8TRdBOWjYqgQAkuEg/s2160/IMG_4457.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4nT_DBAj6JNGQC8K7jqmcUC3_rlzjAbKCcdkun6_AYDIFwggD0U5mOCJMIN7fIQqJve8R-azIYMJDTjzd2q7KHPrPme2MbabYVpv_SRycHoK595JPMlv82Iy-c6keyRJiujC1TzD8b3y5-nBJcKiLiAHq3WnzDZ7UUZ57Iaq9xk8TRdBOWjYqgQAkuEg/w640-h480/IMG_4457.png" width="640" /></a></font></div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2p6dETwK8UkZPvCRK_VIfjrEWwwvM_2lFlAuUc6nYM9aVRdVmCOUkaPYkSc-8fR9_oJnsBTluSatRcY5CFuGno2Eh8_K7vFQNqYCjRyLZ_Opin6GwlBQnnov9w3ym-m31SjA5FOOS6w_oWDl-N8Tt17o8ROJgzwu7lJoDPxcTWyJymmmEQN7cqqXRCow/w640-h480/IMG_4459.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></font><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>BILL MOYERS</u>: </span></div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><div style="text-align: center;">What is The Grail representing, then?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>JOSEPH CAMPBELL</u>: </div><div style="text-align: center;">Well, The Grail becomes the, what we call it, </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>That Which is Attained and Realised by People </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Who Have Lived Their <u>Own</u> Lives. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So The Story very briefly is of this — </div><div style="text-align: center;">I’m giving it now as Wolfram gives it — </div><div style="text-align: center;">but this is just one version. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Grail King</b> was a <b>Lovely Young Man</b>, </div><div style="text-align: center;">but he had not EARNED that position. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And The Grail represents The Fulfillment </div><div style="text-align: center;">of The Highest Spiritual Potentialities </div><div style="text-align: center;">of The Human Consciousness. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And he was a Lovely Young Man, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and he rode forth from His Castle </div><div style="text-align: center;">with The War Cry, “Amor!” </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And as he’s riding forth, a Moslem, </div><div style="text-align: center;">a pagan warrior, a Mohammedan warrior, </div><div style="text-align: center;">comes out of The Woods, A Knight. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And they both level their lances at each other, </div><div style="text-align: center;">they drive at each other, and The Lance </div><div style="text-align: center;">of The Grail King kills The Mohammedan, </div><div style="text-align: center;">but The Mohammedan Lance </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>castrates</i> The Grail King.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What that means is that the Christian separation of Matter and Spirit, </div><div style="text-align: center;">of The Dynamism of Life and The Spiritual, Natural Grace </div><div style="text-align: center;">and Supernatural Grace, has really castrated Nature. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And The European Mind, The European Life, </div><div style="text-align: center;">has been as it were, emasculated by this; </div><div style="text-align: center;">True Spirituality, which would have </div><div style="text-align: center;">come from this, has been killed. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And then what did </div><div style="text-align: center;">The Pagan represent? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He was A Person from </div><div style="text-align: center;">The Suburbs of Eden. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He was regarded as A Nature Man, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and on The Head of His Lance </div><div style="text-align: center;">was written The Word, “<b>Grail</b>.” </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">That is to say, Nature <i><u><b>intends</b></u></i> The Grail. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Spiritual Life </b>is<b> The Bouquet of Natural Life, </b></div><div style="text-align: center;">not a <b>supernatural</b> thing <u>imposed</u> upon it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And so <b>The Impulses of Nature</b> are what </div><div style="text-align: center;">give <b>Authenticity</b> to Life, </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not</i> Obeying Rules come from </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>a Supernatural Authority, </b></div><div style="text-align: center;">that’s the sense of <b>The Grail.</b></div></font><p></p>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-28575350450154780122024-03-13T12:04:00.000-07:002024-03-13T12:04:43.887-07:00Conspiracy Theory<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/zezHTEJKdmo?si=S1IjrS39rFBhO1Pc" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mel Gibson exposes some of the dark minds of Hollywood in 1998 | (FRIGHT...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-1672585652286147352024-03-13T06:52:00.000-07:002024-03-13T06:52:49.844-07:00The Hounds of Love<div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/VerK4zwMRQw?si=N9Q4fboJvprSqJkB" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VerK4zwMRQw/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></b></u></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kate Bush - Hounds of Love - Official Music Video</span></b></u></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The words "<i><b>it's in the trees, it's coming!</b></i>" heard at the beginning of the track are sampled from the British 1957 horror film <i><b>Night of the Demon</b></i> and are mouthed by an actor from the film, Reginald Beckwith, who plays a medium channelling a character played by <b>Maurice Denham</b>, who provides the voice.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A music video was made for the song, which Bush herself directed. It was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's thriller film <i><b>The 39 Steps</b></i> (1935) and a Hitchcock lookalike also features in the video (a nod to the director's famous cameo appearances in his movies).</span></div></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-81032493267312934082024-03-12T06:48:00.000-07:002024-03-16T18:32:27.208-07:00SkyNet<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">He <i>sensed</i> <b>My Power</b>, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">as he senses <u>yours</u> --</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">and he <u>FEARED it</u>.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nXirxeayrsfZ-pCO4_aVj999NxJcrabOFrjj32vnQ7aBg45ANhhlUgYEbR8zDu0HQphHjGBTWXoE9MBY65obYzOG6plFBWKlHfXx_pj-kkN1B4G8Ar25PKjEn1DJj9xO4CJVfRGrSihFxyNru4-2s4FQ13B8X_kFF4KBBRrX5oQzlE12XDjESgej3YQ/s1792/IMG_6875.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1792" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nXirxeayrsfZ-pCO4_aVj999NxJcrabOFrjj32vnQ7aBg45ANhhlUgYEbR8zDu0HQphHjGBTWXoE9MBY65obYzOG6plFBWKlHfXx_pj-kkN1B4G8Ar25PKjEn1DJj9xO4CJVfRGrSihFxyNru4-2s4FQ13B8X_kFF4KBBRrX5oQzlE12XDjESgej3YQ/w640-h296/IMG_6875.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The net of Heaven is <i>vast</i>, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">yet it misses <u>nothing</u>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/KdhHO9HBZvc?si=m1z-AtnyXw4vwZb2" width="480"></iframe></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b>WATCH: Jordan Peterson’s Full Testimony Before Congress</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I would like to start by expressing my uh appreciation for the privilege awarded to me to testify here today it it really is an honor to be asked to do so I'm not here to talk about January 6th or about any particular threat Insurrection or protest political or ideological real or imaginary I'm here to talk about the already extent and expanding collusion of government and Corporation in restricting the individual freedom and autonomy upon which the productive generous and stable psych psyche economy and state are themselves necessarily founded </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I'll begin my comments therefore </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">in the most general terms to shed </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">light on the mounting problem : </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>There are now 700 million CCTVs in China </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>under the rule of the Communist Party --</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>The System</b> to which those electronic eyes </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">are attached is the most <u>complete</u> State-apparatus </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">of surveillance <i>yet imagined</i>, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">with the ability <i>not only</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">to recognise <b>faces</b> at a distance, but <b>gait</b> itself when facial features are hidden or obscured.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Such capability <i>can</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">and <u><b>will</b></u> soon be augmented </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to the point where<b> </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">the movement </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">of <u>eyes</u> <i>themselves</i> </b><span style="font-family: georgia;">monitored by </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">high resolution and intelligent cameras </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">will soon be sufficient to identify </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">any <b>aware</b> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">active party</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> The demented, naive and </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">prideful Engineers who so enthusiastically </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">helped <u>build</u> this System call it <b><u>SkyNet</u> --</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">after the Rogue and all-seeing technology </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">that took such a <i>dreadfully</i> wrong term turn </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">in the famous science fiction movie <b>Terminator</b> series </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">featuring artificially intelligent robot intelligences </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">hellbent on <u><b>protecting themselves</b></u> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">by <b><i>destroying</i> Humanity.</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The name also refers to a well-known Chinese phrase </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">describing the reach of the Divine itself the net of Heaven is vast yet it misses nothing; which aptly describes the capabilities of the new state apparatus the system is integrated with the so-called Chinese social credit system which Awards its involuntary participants with a score indicating their compliance with the dictates of the Chinese Communist Party allowing for full full control over access to everything they possess electronically most ominously their savings and their access to travel certainly all modern means of travel but increasingly as the electronic Gates come up even by walking if you're a Chinese or a visitor your access to the world can be reduced to zero if your social credit score Falls Beyond an arit arbitrary minimum this allows you purposefully to be shut out of all activities that can be virtualized and in a rapidly virtualizing world this increasingly means all activities driving shopping working eating finding shelter even fraternizing with friends and family as merely being in the presence of someone with a low social credit score means that your own score can be lowered this has also opened up the opportunity for the government to extract slave like labor from its citizens so burdened as the donation of free work to the state still constitute one means by which aing Chinese men and women can increase their score and remain part of human society this is precisely the payment system most desired by the most tyrannical not the work for me and benefit thereby that constitutes the contractual Arrangement undertaken by free and Sovereign citizens but the work for me and I will lift the deprivation I imposed that has always been the late motif of the slaver why is any of this relevant to people in the west well because the technology that the Chinese Communist party employs is an extension of Western technology because we already fell prey to the terrible temptation of lockdown employed by that state in the face of hypothetical crisis once and in the very recent past because we're walking step by step in the same direction partly because of the hypothetical convenience of universal and automatic recognition of identity and partly because any problem whatsoever that now confronts us can easily be used to justify the increasing reach of the security in Nanny state it is said that stone AG people first confronted with cameras and their resultant photographs by modern anthropologists objected to having their images captured as they feared the Captivity of their souls it turns out that such fear was preent the images that we leave behind while navigating virtual space are such close duplicates of our actual selves that the capture of our Essence is at this point all but guaranteed we all now have our doppelgangers we all live so much in the virtual world in consequence of our purchasing habits and modes of electronically mediated communication that our very selves have become reducible to a frightening degree to data the modern equivalent of our footprint with the same data making up an image of our identity an identity which can be and is increasingly bought and sold by the invisible corporate Brokers that still mostly use it to sell us what we so desperately and carelessly and conveniently want but can also be used to track Monitor and punish everything we do and say behavioral scientists facilitate this process with their reprehensible nudging the practice of pushing people in a given ideologically determined Direction by manipulating invisible incentives behind the scene corporations track purchasing decisions developing algorithms that with increasing accuracy track our patterns of attention and action allowing for the prediction of what might next be most enticing doing so not only to offer us what we want but to determine and shape what we need governments can and are colluding with these corporate agents to develop a picture not only of our actions but of our thoughts and words so that deviation from the desired end can be mapped rewarded and punished the development of the digital identity and currency is nothing more than the likely end consequence of such inclinations and the combination of both can and will facilitate the development of a surveillance State the scope of which optimistic pessimists of totalitarianism such as George Orwell could scarcely imagine the new AI systems which are so rapidly emerging do nothing but increase this danger providing for the possibility of a super surveillance whose scope exceeds anything that mere un augmented humans could imagine while also making it certain that even the perceptions that in the real world shape our attitudes conduct and personality can be can be manipulated to the degree that we will not even be able to see a reality outside which that has been constructed by the superstate the ultimate fascist collusion between gigantic self-interested corporations and paranoid security obsessed anti-human governments we're already selling our souls to the superstate for the purposes of immediate gratification while being enticed to do so by Fe Mr chairman could the witness be asked to summarize please D do I have my five minutes or do I know you've gone over five minut oh I'm sorry I can I can certainly I can the can summarize we're always a little lean with the time if you can summize take 10 more seconds </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkxeQmnKqgJ5E48nf1H9OYiaRQD1Bu6K2zIbb2h8KWpjHTWCzVZm_R3SRpQrnXWJP-oK0zXup2ty22YOZ9x8WyJWaRoCINR2EytpUcuH-rWsotmnGGX2hOSMjclIGRNTGuoVKQs0qn-U-tTy93zOMvnwkaw0RpX1vYKd8H4BZ7mSHxVVHt1pyZAaDVPdA/s1792/IMG_6881.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1792" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkxeQmnKqgJ5E48nf1H9OYiaRQD1Bu6K2zIbb2h8KWpjHTWCzVZm_R3SRpQrnXWJP-oK0zXup2ty22YOZ9x8WyJWaRoCINR2EytpUcuH-rWsotmnGGX2hOSMjclIGRNTGuoVKQs0qn-U-tTy93zOMvnwkaw0RpX1vYKd8H4BZ7mSHxVVHt1pyZAaDVPdA/w640-h296/IMG_6881.PNG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">--sure. With increasing ability to monitor </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">not only the actual attention patterns and behaviours </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">of its citizens but to <u><i><b>predict</b></i></u> those that are </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">most likely, the persecution of even <i><u>potential</u></i> crime </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">becomes ever more likely if you have nothing to hide you will have nothing to fear will be the slogan commandeered by those most likely to turn to surveillance to protect and control what was the famous Soviet totalitarian joke attributed to laventi Baria head of the secret police show me the man and I'll show you the crime those words were true enough in the time of Stalin's KGB and the police were secret enough then as well but that's nothing compared to what we can and likely will produce now a police so secret that we will not even be able to detect their comprehensive and subtle activity monitoring crime so perace of that everyone under the dictates of the system will have something to hide.</span></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-23936344042896850592024-03-11T17:20:00.000-07:002024-03-11T17:20:52.086-07:00The Heisenberg Compensation<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDGgPHC2vOw9lZGHMY2pjpafW_Nq6I3GF93-B6LYTw0XBtKz0Wq3pdGaBfYFRrQHxfvXuugl0S7_Nq928JfbxEfWOEfZCLD6wvZcnKyQaMaBOuVzI4n-jhhDetGQjllraMlyEwRSb49MGd7jYD-tvBejRaYx9S_yWPfU3B9ERjLQK3tTb0bJbvKcIkLs/s1976/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%2000.19.31.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1976" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDGgPHC2vOw9lZGHMY2pjpafW_Nq6I3GF93-B6LYTw0XBtKz0Wq3pdGaBfYFRrQHxfvXuugl0S7_Nq928JfbxEfWOEfZCLD6wvZcnKyQaMaBOuVzI4n-jhhDetGQjllraMlyEwRSb49MGd7jYD-tvBejRaYx9S_yWPfU3B9ERjLQK3tTb0bJbvKcIkLs/w640-h380/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%2000.19.31.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>The Uncertainty Principle</b>, also known as <b>Heisenberg's Indeterminacy Principle</b>, is a fundamental concept in <b>Quantum Mechanics.</b> It states that <b>there is a <u>limit</u></b> to the <i>precision</i> with which <b>certain pairs of physical properties</b>, such as <b>position</b> and <b>momentum</b>, can be <i>simultaneously</i> <u>known</u>. In other words, <b>the more accurately</b> <u>one</u> property is <i>measured</i>, the <b><i>less</i> accurately</b> the other property can be <u>known</u>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>The Heisenberg Compensator</b> was a component of the transporter system. The compensator worked around the problems caused by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, allowing the transporter sensors to compensate for their inability to determine both the position and momentum of the target particles to the same degree of accuracy. This ensured the matter stream remained coherent during transport, and no data was lost.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A scan of the Heisenberg compensators, to ensure they were performing within the specified parameters, could be performed by raising the transporter pad. (TNG: "Realm Of Fear")</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">While trying to devise a way to transport holographic matter off the holodeck without it disintegrating instantly, the idea was put forth that decoupling the Heisenberg compensators might let the matter reform normally, although the suggestion was used as a stalling tactic against Professor James Moriarty, and the idea had never actually been tried before. (TNG: "Ship In A Bottle")</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In 2371, Chief Miles O'Brien ordered a crewman to check the Heisenberg compensators of the USS Defiant. (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I")</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" suggested that on a subatomic level, it is possible to know the motion or the position of a particle, but not both. Some believe this fundamental characteristic of matter would make it impossible for a transporter to work as shown on Star Trek. The Heisenberg compensator was invented to circumvent this principle and to explain how the transporter can work. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 333))</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When asked by Time magazine in 1994, "How does the Heisenberg compensator work?" Michael Okuda replied, "It works very well, thank you.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> After Göttingen, I moved on to Leiden, in Holland, where I first met Isidor Rabi.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Excuse me.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A yank. Lecturing on the new physics.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This I have to hear.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I’m an American myself.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How surprising.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Let me know if you need any help with the English.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Wait, what’s he saying?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No, thank you.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It’s a long way to Zurich.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If you get any skinnier, we’re gonna lose you between the seat cushions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I’m Rabi.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Oppenheimer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I caught your lecture on molecules.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Caught some of it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We’re a couple of New York Jews, how do you know Dutch?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Well, I thought I’d better learn it when I got here this semester.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You learned enough Dutch in six weeks to give a lecture on quantum mechanics?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I like to challenge myself.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Quantum physics wasn’t challenging enough.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shvitzer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shvitzer?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Show-off.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Dutch in six weeks, but you never learned Yiddish.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">They don’t speak it so much my side of the park.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Screw you.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You homesick?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Oh, you know it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ever get the feeling our kind isn’t entirely welcome here?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Physicists?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That’s funny.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Not in the department.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">They’re all Jewish, too.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Eat.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There’s this German you have to seek out.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Heisenberg.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Right.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">One might be led to the presumption that behind the quantum world there still hides a real world in which causality holds, but such speculations seem to us, to say it explicitly, fruitless.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thank you. Have a great day.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Wonderful.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thank you.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Dr. Oppenheimer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Oppenheimer, yes!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I liked your paper on molecules.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Probably because you inspired it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If I inspire anything else, let me know. We could publish together.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I have to get back to America.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There’s no one there taking quantum mechanics seriously.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That’s exactly why.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He’s pining for the canyons of Manhattan.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Canyons of New Mexico.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You’re from New Mexico?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No, New York.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But my brother and I have a ranch outside Santa Fe.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That’s the America I miss right now.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then it’s best you get home, cowboys.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That’s him.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No, me and horses?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I don’t think so.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nice to meet you.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Did you ever encounter Heisenberg again?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Not in person, no, but… you might say our paths crossed.</span></div><div><br /></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-79375597160272087622024-03-11T16:51:00.000-07:002024-03-11T16:51:17.153-07:00Go to Your Room!<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/UZpAwxPDWeA?si=XWu4BsEJTCpwnWSm" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UZpAwxPDWeA/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">the witches (1990)- ending !! HD</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">#JaneHorrocks The most notable difference from the book is that the boy is restored to human form at the end of the story by <b>The Grand High Witch's <u>assistant</u></b> (a character who does <i><u><b>not</b></u></i> appear in the book), who had renounced her former evil. Dahl regarded the film as<b> "utterly appalling"</b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">During the editing process, the editor Stephen Roxburgh told Dahl that he was concerned about misogyny in the book. However, he dismissed these concerns by explaining he was not afraid of offending women. The feminist critic Catherine Itzin claimed that <b>the book 'is how Boys learn to become Men who HATE Women'.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Jemma Crew of the Newstatesman considers it an "unlikely source of inspiration for feminists". The Times article "Not in Front of the Censors" suggests that the LEAST interesting thing to a child about A Witch is that they APPEAR to look like A Woman, and even offers the perspective that a witch might be a VERY feminist role model to a young school girl.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Dahl based the novel on his OWN childhood experiences, with the character of the grandmother modelled on Sofie Dahl, the author’s mother. The Author was “well satisfied” by his work on The Witches, a sentiment which literary biographer Robert Carrick believes may have come from the fact that the novel was a departure from Dahl’s usual “all-problem-solving finish.” Dahl did not work on the novel alone; he was aided by editor Stephen Roxburgh, who helped rework The Witches. Roxburgh’s advice was very extensive and covered areas such as improving plots, tightening up Dahl’s writing, and re-inventing characters. Soon after its publication, the novel received compliments for its illustrations by Quentin Blake</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Analysis : Due to the complexity of The Witches and its departure from a typical Dahl novel, several academics have analysed the work. One perspective offered by Castleton University professor James Curtis suggests that the REJECTION of the novel by PARENTS is caused by its focus on “CHILD-HATE” and Dahl’s reluctance to SHIELD children from such a reality. The scholar argues that the book showcases a treatment of children that is NOT ACTUALLY WORSE than historical and modern examples; however, Dahl’s determination to expose to his young readers The TRUTH can be controversial. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Despite Society occasionally making progress in its treatment of children, Curtis argues that different aspects of Child-Hate displayed in Dahl’s work are based on REAL WORLD EXAMPLES. As the boy’s grandmother informs him, The Witches usually strike children when they are ALONE; Curtis uses this information from the novel to connect to the historical problem of child abandonment. As children have been maimed or KILLED due to abandonment, children are harmed by witches in the novel when they have been left ALONE. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-10115751876863305222024-03-11T16:37:00.000-07:002024-03-13T12:34:16.685-07:00I CANNOT Believe I Just SAID That!<div style="text-align: center;"><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>You make Love like a Japanese Meal —</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Small portions, but <i>so </i>many courses!</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2l3NWWljR_HuqL1uA29ij62YOi4R1538ouFab8FcAEnpbMmA_LqIqBkvjWSwZyZuWqqAn_0ECpkXQ9QULO3BHHMs9G30LJ-kx55rA_HaaCzNGVer4T1B8j_G8zFTgQX9NQnzyppv8_ZZeMDXO8Ixy8LDrFQveURPOKhQIMIU8kv3UrR_mhkV95Z0C2w/s350/IMG_4011.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="350" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2l3NWWljR_HuqL1uA29ij62YOi4R1538ouFab8FcAEnpbMmA_LqIqBkvjWSwZyZuWqqAn_0ECpkXQ9QULO3BHHMs9G30LJ-kx55rA_HaaCzNGVer4T1B8j_G8zFTgQX9NQnzyppv8_ZZeMDXO8Ixy8LDrFQveURPOKhQIMIU8kv3UrR_mhkV95Z0C2w/w640-h426/IMG_4011.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Listen to <i>me</i> mister!</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> Underneath all that <b>neurotic mess</b> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">is<b> </b>someone <i><u>nice</u></i> <b>trying to get out.</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> Someone who <i><b>deserves</b></i> a chance to <u><b>grow</b></u>.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>So, you <i>won't</i> give up, OK? <u>OK</u>?</b></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzAzkxHAyREqNL19KlRL4xJDVCyjrnv6S1t2v9FBjGI_3t5jQHvvOFDd0crIX7OU1GUrj17XMptrqraJKHcERNvJjTEhPV2bTxw8A9nyDDR8OuxfrgZqnx5Rsv5Yc3LkxsPIFopga02KxPcguEAvzXxetjR4Hai-qnGJanUdhjJvQCoWVwFYI_gEIjYQ/s512/1200x675.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="512" height="360" id="id_7cbe_b20_6127_1e57" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzAzkxHAyREqNL19KlRL4xJDVCyjrnv6S1t2v9FBjGI_3t5jQHvvOFDd0crIX7OU1GUrj17XMptrqraJKHcERNvJjTEhPV2bTxw8A9nyDDR8OuxfrgZqnx5Rsv5Yc3LkxsPIFopga02KxPcguEAvzXxetjR4Hai-qnGJanUdhjJvQCoWVwFYI_gEIjYQ/w640-h360/1200x675.jpg" style="height: auto; width: 640px;" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><u>LISTER</u>: </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">Why do I feel that <u>somehow</u> </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">you've <i>missed</i> the point? </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">I mean, whether you <b>believe</b> </font></span></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-family: georgia;">that stuff <i><b>or not</b></i>, it's </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">about <b>a dude </b></span></font></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-family: georgia;">who </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">sacrifices</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> his <b>life</b> for <u><b>love</b></u>.</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><u>RIMMER</u>: </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">Not realistic. <i>As if!</i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><u>LISTER</u>: </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">You've got no <i><b>soul</b></i>, </font></span></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-family: georgia;">man. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>No soul.</b></span></font></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh, my darling, don't! This isn't </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">a time for sadness, </span></span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">it's a time for joy! For laughter! Don't you see? </span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Whatever this crazy old world throws at us now </span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">it doesn't matter -- none of it.</span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>MAN</u>: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Marnie, we can never </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">be together again.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>WOMAN</u>: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Oh my darling, you're <u>wrong</u>!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>We'll always be together. </b></i></span></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">It's just... that <b>we'll be apart.</b></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Film music signals the end of the film.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>KRYTEN</u>: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Wasn't that just <u>beautiful</u>? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Oh! </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Well recommended, sir. D'you think </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">they </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">ever get back together again?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>LISTER</u>: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">(<i>In a weepy voice, with head in hands</i>) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>I don't know.</b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>KRYTEN</u>: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Pardon?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>LISTER</u>: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">(<i>Even more distraught</i>) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>I don't <u><i>know</i></u>.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" id="id_df73_9cfe_b09a_f067" src="https://youtube.com/embed/p4FCv-AzC1o?si=GSywen3fu6sEXCdO" width="480"></iframe></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b>Geronimo! | Red Dwarf | BBC Comedy Greats</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">#JaneHorrocks The most notable difference from the book is that the boy is restored to human form at the end of the story by <b>The Grand High Witch's <u>assistant</u></b> (a character who does <i><u><b>not</b></u></i> appear in the book), who had renounced her former evil. Dahl regarded the film as<b> "utterly appalling"</b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">During the editing process, the editor Stephen Roxburgh told Dahl that he was concerned about <b>misogyny</b> in the book. However, he dismissed these concerns by explaining he was not afraid of offending women. The feminist critic Catherine Itzin claimed that <b>the book 'is how Boys learn to become Men who HATE Women'.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Jemma Crew of the Newstatesman considers it an "unlikely source of inspiration for feminists". The Times article "Not in Front of the Censors" suggests that the LEAST interesting thing to a child about A Witch is that they APPEAR to look like A Woman, and even offers the perspective that a witch might be a VERY feminist role model to a young school girl.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Dahl based the novel on his OWN childhood experiences, with the character of the grandmother modelled on Sofie Dahl, the author’s mother. The Author was “well satisfied” by his work on The Witches, a sentiment which literary biographer Robert Carrick believes may have come from the fact that the novel was a departure from Dahl’s usual “all-problem-solving finish.” Dahl did not work on the novel alone; he was aided by editor Stephen Roxburgh, who helped rework The Witches. Roxburgh’s advice was very extensive and covered areas such as improving plots, tightening up Dahl’s writing, and re-inventing characters. Soon after its publication, the novel received compliments for its illustrations by Quentin Blake</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Analysis : Due to the complexity of The Witches and its departure from a typical Dahl novel, several academics have analysed the work. One perspective offered by Castleton University professor James Curtis suggests that the REJECTION of the novel by PARENTS is caused by its focus on “CHILD-HATE” and Dahl’s reluctance to SHIELD children from such a reality. The scholar argues that the book showcases a treatment of children that is NOT ACTUALLY WORSE than historical and modern examples; however, Dahl’s determination to expose to his young readers The TRUTH can be controversial. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Despite Society occasionally making progress in its treatment of children, Curtis argues that different aspects of Child-Hate displayed in Dahl’s work are based on REAL WORLD EXAMPLES. As the boy’s grandmother informs him, The Witches usually strike children when they are ALONE; Curtis uses this information from the novel to connect to the historical problem of child abandonment. As children have been maimed or KILLED due to abandonment, children are harmed by witches in the novel when they have been left ALONE. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">RIMMER: </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><b>I would have done <u><i>anything</i></u> </b></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><b>to get on this ship. </b></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><u><i>Every</i> time</u> I look in the mirror, <b>I see <u>this</u>.</b></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">(<i>He points at his letter</i> <b>H</b>.) </font></span></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Only to <i>me</i> it doesn't <u>mean</u> <b>Hologram</b>, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">it means</span><b style="font-family: georgia;"> </b></font></div><div><font size="5"><b style="font-family: georgia;">half-wit, hopeless, hideous</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> failure. </b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">This was a chance to <b><i>be</i> somebody.</b></font></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">Somebody I <u>liked</u>.</font></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">CRANE: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I've never <i>met</i> anyone </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">like you before.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><u>Everyone</u></i> says that.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>CRANE</u>: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">(<i>Taking hold of</i> RIMMER <i>by the cheeks</i>) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Listen to <i>me</i> mister!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> Underneath all that <b>neurotic mess</b> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">is<b> </b>someone <i><u>nice</u></i> <b>trying to get out.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> Someone who <i><b>deserves</b></i> a chance to <u>grow</u>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>So, you <i>won't</i> give up, OK? <u>OK</u>?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I <u>cheated</u>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">CRANE: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">You're <i>going</i> to win, Arnie. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">You're <i>going</i> to get your dream. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>I <u>promise</u> you.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>RIMMER</u>: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">You <i>really</i> <b>think</b>?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">CRANE <i>kisses her finger and touches </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER's <i>lips. The lift door opens.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>CRANE</u>: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I <u>really</u> <i><b>think</b></i>. (<i>Leaves</i>.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">27 Model shot.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Red Dwarf.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">28 Int. Red Dwarf corridor.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER <i>materialises on the Red Dwarf and walks down a corridor into the </i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>room where </i>LISTER <i>and</i> CAT <i>are</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: (<i>Seemingly dejected</i>) I won.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">LISTER: (<i>Incredulous</i>) What?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">My opponent withdrew. I <u>won</u>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I'm an officer. I leave tonight.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> (<u>Leaves</u>.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">29 Int. Red Dwarf transmission room. That night.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER <i>is saying goodbye to the other Dwarfers, rather falteringly. </i></span></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">His </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">letter H is now in a circle and he's dressed </span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">as a member of the </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Enlightenment's crew.</span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">and I know I haven't</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> always been an easy guy to get on with. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">And I know that, given the </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">choice, I probably wouldn't </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">have chosen you as friends. But, I just </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">want to say ... </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">that over the years, ... I have come to regard you ...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> as ... <i>people</i> ... I <u>met</u>. I'd just better go, OK?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">LISTER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">See you smeghead.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Transfer.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">KRYTEN: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Transfer. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">(RIMMER disappears.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">30 Model shot.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>The translucent holoship is drifting by </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>when it turns into a blue comet</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>and flies away.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">31 Int. Holoship room.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">NUMBER TWO and RIMMER </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">walk into a room.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">NUMBER TWO: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Here are your quarters, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Mr. RIMMER.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">There must be some mistake -- </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">these are commander Crane's</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> quarters.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">NUMBER TWO: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Oh, didn't you <u>know</u>? <i>She</i> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">was your opponent.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Music starts playing, as from the film </b></i></span></div><div><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">which was playing at the start of </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">the episode.</span></b></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>walks into the captain's room.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Navigation officer Rimmer reporting, sir.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>The music starts fading out.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">PLATINI: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Arnold, welcome aboard. (<i>Salutes</i>) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I trust everything's to your</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> sa--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Permission to speak, sir. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I wish to </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">resign my commission, sir.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">PLATINI: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u>Resign</u>. Ah, may I ask </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">your <u>reasoning</u> please?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Flight commander Crane has taken leave </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>of her senses and fallen</b><b> in love with me, sir.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">PLATINI: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Love</b>? Surely not. Commander Crane is </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><u>far</u></i> too intellectually advanced to submit </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">to a mere <u>short-term hormonal imbalance</u>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">That's why she withdrew </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">from the challenge </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">and </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">allowed me to win, sir.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">PLATINI: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Mr. Rimmer, what you are <u>suggesting</u> is that </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">somehow she cared <i>more</i> for your happiness </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">than she did for her own <u>life</u>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Am I</i>? <u>Yes</u> sir,<b> I suppose I <i>am</i></b>, <u>sir</u>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">PLATINI: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">And now you are doing something </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>equally</u> unfathomable --</b> resigning so that she </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">can be reinstated, even though here you could </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">have everything: <b>a position of command, </b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">an effective physical</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> presence</b>, <u>everything</u>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Perhaps you'd be kind enough </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">to pass this <b>note</b> on to her, sir.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>He hands over an envelope as the music swells up again.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">PLATINI: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I understand your gesture, but really your resignation solves</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> <u>nothing</u>. After all, the two of you will still be... <b>apart</b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Permission to return </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">to Red Dwarf, sir.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">PLATINI: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Granted.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER <i>stands to attention and </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>gives the Enlightened salute. </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>He begins </i><i>to leave, but stops </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>and turns around.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">RIMMER: </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">Oh and sir, you're <u>wrong</u>. </font></span></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We <i>won't</i> be apart, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">we just ... </span></font></div><div><font size="5"><b style="font-family: georgia;">won't</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> be <u>together</u>.</b></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>A look of <u><b>disgust</b></u> comes over </i>RIMMER's<i> face.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>I <i><u>cannot</u></i> believe I just <u>said</u> that!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">RIMMER<i> leaves. While the music is coming to an end, </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>the screen narrows </i><i>to letterbox format and </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>"The End" appears in a suitably tacky cursive </i><i>script.</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></i></div><div><br /></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-47648297730253172722024-03-09T06:09:00.001-08:002024-03-09T06:18:40.070-08:00Nurture <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Prologue</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b>1 INT. MAURY’S SHOP— NIGHT 1</b></u></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>A strangled cry escapes </i>FAITH’s<i> lips as </i>ANGELUS<i> sinks his fangs into her </i></font><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">neck and begins to drink.</span></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Suddenly Angelus pushes Faith away and falls backward gasping.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">ANGELUS</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><b><i>What</i></b>… did you <u><b>do</b></u>?</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Faith stares at him, holding her ravaged neck.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CUT TO:</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u>Earlier</u><i>.</i></font></div><div><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><i>Faith strides forward and shoots at Angelus with the trank gun. He ducks </i></font><i style="font-family: Georgia;">aside and the shot misses, then kicks Faith backward into a stack of boxes.</i></font></div><div><font size="5"><i style="font-family: Georgia;"><br></i></font></div><div><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">WESLEY <i>chambers a round in his shotgun and opens fire. Again, Angelus’ </i></font><i style="font-family: Georgia;">demonic reflexes allow him to evade the gunfire.</i></font></div><div><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><i>While Angelus is distracted with Wesley, Faith slides her pant leg up and </i></font><i style="font-family: Georgia;">removes a hypodermic syringe strapped to her leg.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">ANGELUS</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">(o.s.)</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">You gotta do <u>better</u> than that, Wes! Come on! I’ll give you </font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">one more. <i><b>Strike three!</b></i></span></div><div><i><font size="5" face="Georgia">She quickly plunges the needle into her arm and injects herself with the </font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">drug.. </span></i><u style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Orpheus</b></u></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b><br></b></u></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">4</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">BACK TO SCENE</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Angelus grabs onto the scaffolding and tries to haul himself up but the</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>drug is too powerful. He collapses back to floor, barely conscious.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">ANGELUS</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u>You</u>… you sp… <b>you <u>spiked</u>…</b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Behind Faith, Wesley tumbles off the scaffolding and crashes to the floor.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>He pushes himself up and looks over at Faith.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">WESLEY</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><b>You all right?</b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>A hint of a smile plays across Faith’s face.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">FAITH</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><b><u>Kicked</u> his ass.</b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Then her eyes roll up into her head and she falls over unconscious.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Opening credit sequence.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Act I</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">2 INT. HYPERION HOTEL— LOBBY— NIGHT 2</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">The lobby is quiet. FRED sits at the counter, reading an old book on </font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">magick. Suddenly, the door slams open and GUNN enters, dragging an </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">unconscious Angelus and calling out frantically.</span></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">GUNN</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Connor!</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">FRED</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Oh, my god! Angelus…</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">GUNN</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Pick up your trank gun. I don’t know how much time we </font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">have. Connor!</span></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Fred grabs the pistol and hurries around the counter to where Gunn has </i></font><i style="font-family: Georgia;">dumped Angelus on the lobby floor. His hands and feet are bound with </i><i style="font-family: Georgia;">rope.</i></div><div><i style="font-family: Georgia;"><br></i></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">FRED</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">What happened?</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">GUNN</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Wes called. I went.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">He grabs the gun from Fred and cocks it, aiming it at Angelus.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">FRED</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Where is he? Where’s Faith?</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">LORNE wanders out into the lobby to see what the fuss is about.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">LORNE</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Well, what is all the— oh! <b><i>Angelus</i>! He’s <u>in</u> the hotel!</b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">GUNN</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">(to Fred)</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Get me the steel shackles.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Fred runs back into the office as Lorne stands over Angelus, amazed.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">LORNE</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Oh, but maybe we’re already aware of that.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">GUNN</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">All I had was rope in the truck.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CONNOR appears on the upper balcony and looks down.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CONNOR</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">What’s going on?</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">GUNN</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Get down here, now! (to Fred) The leg irons, too.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Connor sees Angelus on the floor and dashes down the stairs.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CONNOR</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">She found him.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">LORNE</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Wesley and Faith… where are they?</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">The door slams open and Wesley enters, carrying Faith in his arms. She’s</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">out cold, a large blood-soaked bandage pressed to her neck.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">WESLEY</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">(re: Angelus)</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Get him downstairs..</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CONNOR</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><b>What happened to Faith?</b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">WESLEY</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">She <u>captured</u> Angelus.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">FRED</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">God, what did he <i>do</i> to her?</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">WESLEY</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Gunn…</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">GUNN</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">We got it.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">LORNE</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">She looks not well.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CONNOR</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">She gonna be—</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">GUNN</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Wake up, kid. I need you here.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>He hands Connor the shackles and pulls him <u>away</u> from Faith.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">WESLEY</font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">(</span><i style="font-family: Georgia;">to Fred</i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">)</span></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><b>Help me with her.</b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CUT TO:</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">3 INT. HYPERION HOTEL— CONTINUOUS— NIGHT 3</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Accompanied by Lorne and Fred, Wesley carries Faith through the hotel</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">into one of the rooms and puts her down on the bed..</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CUT TO:</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">4 INT. HYPERION HOTEL— BASEMENT— NIGHT 4</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Connor opens the cage door and Gunn drags Angelus inside. They strip</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">the ropes from his wrists and start fastening the shackles and leg irons.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CUT TO:</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">5 INT. HYPERION HOTEL— FAITH’S ROOM— NIGHT 5</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Lorne checks Faith’s pupils then notices the <u>needle track</u> on her arm. </i></font></div><div><i><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">He </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">looks up at Wesley, <b>realisation</b> dawning.</span></font></i></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Fred enters with a bowl of hot water and fresh bandages. She carefully</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>removes the cloth from Faith’s neck and looks at the ragged bite marks</i></font></div><div><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><i>beneath. After a moment’s hesitation, she wets a fresh towel and starts to </i></font><i style="font-family: Georgia;">clean the wound.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CUT TO:</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b>6 INT. HYPERION HOTEL— BASEMENT— NIGHT 6</b></u></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Angelus is firmly secured. Connor leans over him and <u>grimaces</u>.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b>CONNOR</b></u></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><b>He <u>fed</u> from her. There’s <u>blood</u> on his breath.</b></font></div><div><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><i>Angelus suddenly jerks in his chains and Connor and Gunn leap </i></font><i style="font-family: Georgia;">backward, Gunn holding his trank pistol at the ready. Angelus mumbles, </i><i style="font-family: Georgia;">delirious, but remains unconscious.</i></font></div><div><font size="5"><i style="font-family: Georgia;"><br></i></font></div><div><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><b><u>ANGELUS</u></b> </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">(</span><i style="font-family: Georgia;">weak</i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">)</span></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>I’ll kill you… kill… you…</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">CUT TO:</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">7 INT. HYPERION HOTEL— FAITH’S ROOM— NIGHT 7</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Faith tosses and turns, muttering in her sleep as well.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b>FAITH</b></u></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">…<i>scratch you out</i>…</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b>FRED</b></u></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">She’s not making any sense.</font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b>LORNE</b></u> </font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">(</span><i style="font-family: Georgia;">to Wesley</i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">)</span></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">And speaking of <b>sense</b>, have you been on permanent </font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">sabbatical from <b><i>yours</i></b>? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><u><b>Tell me</b></u> you did not <b><i>shoot</i> that girl </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>full of junk </b>and then </span><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><u><i>feed</i> her</u> to Angelus.</b></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b>WESLEY</b></u></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">It was <b><i>her</i> choice. </b>Faith <u>knew</u> <b>the risks..</b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b>LORNE</b></u> </font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">(<i>angry</i>)</span></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Oh, <b>she <u>couldn’t</u>!</b></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>Fred turns around and <b><u>shushes</u> him.</b> He lowers his voice, </i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i>chagrined but still angry with Wesley.</i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia"><u><b>LORNE</b></u></font></div><div><font size="5" face="Georgia">Wesley, <b>I </b><u style="font-weight: bold;">know</u><b> what that drug </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">does</i><b> to people. </b><u>Especially</u> when</font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"> they </span><b style="font-family: Georgia;">super-size the dosage</b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"> to make sure they </span><u style="font-family: Georgia;">really</u><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">get </span><b style="font-family: Georgia;">the job</b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"> done. </span><b style="font-family: Georgia;">And <i><u>you</u></i> damn well know it, too.</b></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-35987376705774482732024-03-08T11:11:00.000-08:002024-03-11T16:51:27.002-07:00King of Salem <div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u><br /></u></font></b></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u><br /></u></font></b></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">Another ship arrived </font></font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">during </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">the night. </span></font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">There's <b>A Boy</b> </font><u style="font-family: Georgia;">standing</u><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span></font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">out there </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>on the bow</b> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">like</span><b style="font-family: Georgia;"> </b></font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">he's<b> a statue. </b></font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>The Boy</b> is letting </font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">them <b><u><i>see</i> him</u>. </b></font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">He's in <i>plain</i> <u>sight</u>! </font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>They Do Not <u>Know</u></b> if </font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>What They <u>See</u></b> is <i>real</i>. </font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Something to Do with The Mist</u>. </font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Apparently, They find </font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><i>dangerous</i> things</b>, </font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>spirits</u> in The Mist. </font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><b><font face="Georgia" size="5">The Boy was being <u>polite</u>, </font></b></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">giving Them <i>time</i> to </font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>decide</u> if <b>He's Real. </b></font></div></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><b><u><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/aN74hUIJJdc?si=G54HUjcfM8q-A48z" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aN74hUIJJdc/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></u></b></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Yeh Shoulda Been Loved</u></b></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Jane Horrocks</u> :</b></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It's like he's been </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">lyin' to me all this time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Retrograde Witch</u> :</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Have you thrown him out?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Jane Horrocks</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He's on the couch.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Retrograde Witch</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Should be in a kennel if you ask me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Jane Horrocks</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And Liz is moving halfway </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">round the world for a new job.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Progressive Witch</u> :</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Where's she goin'?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Jane Horrocks</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Florida.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Progressive Witch</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Florida</b>? I'd <u>love</u> to go there.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Jane Horrocks</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My family's falling apart.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I feel like it's my <u>fault</u>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Harry Hecate</u> :</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Jean, I'm sorry, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I couldn't help overhearing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Jane Horrocks</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Harry, I'm just being stupid.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Harry Hecate</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Aye, you <u><b>are</b></u> being stupid if</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">you think <u><b>any</b></u> of this is <b><u>your</u> fault.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come here. Come on. Come on.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>It can happen in <i><u>any</u></i> family.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come on. Come on.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Mary Queen of Scots,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">born <b>1542</b>, died <b>1587</b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Her <i>third</i> husband</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u><b>murdered</b></u> her <i>second</i> husband,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">her <u>cousin</u> tried her for <b>treason</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and <b>her son</b> stole <b>her throne.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Progressive Witch</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>It's true.</b> If she was alive today,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">she'd be on <i><b>The Jeremy Kyle Show.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Harry Hecate</u> :</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So you listen to <u>me</u>, Jean Henshaw.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whatever happened is <u><b>not</b></u> your fault.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You have done <i><b>nothing</b></i> but <b>work yourself</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>into The <u>Ground</u> for Your Family.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>You've been <b>let down</b>, <u>messed</u> around</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Told</u> to<b> get your feet back on the ground</b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>When you should have been loved, loved, loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>You've been <u>ripped</u> off, <u>written</u> off</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Told</u> <b>an act of kindness</b> made you <b>soft</b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>When you should have been <b>loved</b>, loved, loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>You should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>But all <u>your detractors</u> <b>underestimated</b> you</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Cause they don't <b><u>know</u> you</b> like I do</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>You've <u>slept rough</u>, <b>stolen</b> stuff</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Been beaten by a guy to show he's tough</b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>When you should have been <b>loved</b>, loved, loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>And anything new you tried to do</b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Got treated like a jumper in a queue</b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>When you should have been loved, loved, loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>But when there was <b>pity</b> and</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>When there was <b>wealth</b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>You wasted neither on <u>yourself</u></b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Should have been loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>All your detractors underestimated you</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Cause they don't <u>know</u> you like I do</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Like I do</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>You've been let down, messed around</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Told to get your feet back on the ground</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>When you should have been loved, loved, loved</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ACT III</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SCENE I. Forres. The palace.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enter BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As the weird women promised, and, I fear,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It should not stand in thy posterity,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But that myself should be the root and father</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Of many kings. If there come truth from them--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why, by the verities on thee made good,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">May they not be my oracles as well,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And set me up in hope? But hush! no more.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sennet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as king, LADY MACBETH, as queen, LENNOX, ROSS, Lords, Ladies, and Attendants</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here's our chief guest.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If he had been forgotten,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It had been as a gap in our great feast,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And all-thing unbecoming.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To-night we hold a solemn supper sir,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And I'll request your presence.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Let your highness</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Command upon me; to the which my duties</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Are with a most indissoluble tie</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For ever knit.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ride you this afternoon?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ay, my good lord.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We should have else desired your good advice,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which still hath been both grave and prosperous,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In this day's council; but we'll take to-morrow.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is't far you ride?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As far, my lord, as will fill up the time</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">'Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I must become a borrower of the night</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For a dark hour or twain.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fail not our feast.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My lord, I will not.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In England and in Ireland, not confessing</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With strange invention: but of that to-morrow,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When therewithal we shall have cause of state</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon 's.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I wish your horses swift and sure of foot;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And so I do commend you to their backs. Farewell.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exit BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Let every man be master of his time</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Till seven at night: to make society</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Till supper-time alone: while then, God be with you!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exeunt all but MACBETH, and an attendant</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sirrah, a word with you: attend those men</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our pleasure?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ATTENDANT</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">They are, my lord, without the palace gate.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Bring them before us.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exit Attendant</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To be thus is nothing;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To act in safety. There is none but he</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whose being I do fear: and, under him,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When first they put the name of king upon me,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">They hail'd him father to a line of kings:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Put rancours in the vessel of my peace</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Only for them; and mine eternal jewel</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Given to the common enemy of man,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Rather than so, come fate into the list.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now go to the door, and stay there till we call.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exit Attendant</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Was it not yesterday we spoke together?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It was, so please your highness.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Well then, now</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Have you consider'd of my speeches? Know</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That it was he in the times past which held you</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So under fortune, which you thought had been</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our innocent self: this I made good to you</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In our last conference, pass'd in probation with you,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How you were borne in hand, how cross'd,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">the instruments,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who wrought with them, and all things else that might</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To half a soul and to a notion crazed</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Say 'Thus did Banquo.'</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You made it known to us.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I did so, and went further, which is now</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our point of second meeting. Do you find</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Your patience so predominant in your nature</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That you can let this go? Are you so gospell'd</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To pray for this good man and for his issue,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And beggar'd yours for ever?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We are men, my liege.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">All by the name of dogs: the valued file</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The housekeeper, the hunter, every one</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">According to the gift which bounteous nature</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Particular addition. from the bill</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That writes them all alike: and so of men.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now, if you have a station in the file,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say 't;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And I will put that business in your bosoms,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whose execution takes your enemy off,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Grapples you to the heart and love of us,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who wear our health but sickly in his life,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which in his death were perfect.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I am one, my liege,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Have so incensed that I am reckless what</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I do to spite the world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And I another</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That I would set my lie on any chance,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To mend it, or be rid on't.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Both of you</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Know Banquo was your enemy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Both Murderers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">True, my lord.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So is he mine; and in such bloody distance,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That every minute of his being thrusts</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Against my near'st of life: and though I could</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With barefaced power sweep him from my sight</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For certain friends that are both his and mine,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who I myself struck down; and thence it is,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That I to your assistance do make love,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Masking the business from the common eye</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For sundry weighty reasons.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We shall, my lord,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Perform what you command us.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Though our lives--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I will advise you where to plant yourselves;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The moment on't; for't must be done to-night,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And something from the palace; always thought</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That I require a clearness: and with him--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To leave no rubs nor botches in the work--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fleance his son, that keeps him company,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whose absence is no less material to me</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Than is his father's, must embrace the fate</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'll come to you anon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Both Murderers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We are resolved, my lord.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'll call upon you straight: abide within.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exeunt Murderers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exit</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SCENE II. The palace.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enter LADY MACBETH and a Servant</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is Banquo gone from court?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Servant</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ay, madam, but returns again to-night.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Say to the king, I would attend his leisure</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For a few words.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Servant</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Madam, I will.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exit</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nought's had, all's spent,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Where our desire is got without content:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">'Tis safer to be that which we destroy</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enter MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Of sorriest fancies your companions making,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Using those thoughts which should indeed have died</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With them they think on? Things without all remedy</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Should be without regard: what's done is done.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Remains in danger of her former tooth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But let the frame of things disjoint, both the</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">worlds suffer,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In the affliction of these terrible dreams</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That shake us nightly: better be with the dead,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Than on the torture of the mind to lie</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Can touch him further.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come on;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Unsafe the while, that we</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Must lave our honours in these flattering streams,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And make our faces vizards to our hearts,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Disguising what they are.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You must leave this.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But in them nature's copy's not eterne.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There's comfort yet; they are assailable;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A deed of dreadful note.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What's to be done?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And with thy bloody and invisible hand</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Makes wing to the rooky wood:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So, prithee, go with me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exeunt</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SCENE III. A park near the palace.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enter three Murderers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But who did bid thee join with us?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Macbeth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our offices and what we have to do</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To the direction just.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then stand with us.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now spurs the lated traveller apace</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To gain the timely inn; and near approaches</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The subject of our watch.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hark! I hear horses.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">[Within] Give us a light there, ho!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then 'tis he: the rest</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That are within the note of expectation</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Already are i' the court.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">His horses go about.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Almost a mile: but he does usually,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So all men do, from hence to the palace gate</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Make it their walk.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A light, a light!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">'Tis he.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Stand to't.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It will be rain to-night.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Let it come down.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">They set upon BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou mayst revenge. O slave!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Dies. FLEANCE escapes</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who did strike out the light?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Wast not the way?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There's but one down; the son is fled.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We have lost</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Best half of our affair.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Well, let's away, and say how much is done.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exeunt</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SCENE IV. The same. Hall in the palace.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH, ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You know your own degrees; sit down: at first</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And last the hearty welcome.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lords</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thanks to your majesty.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ourself will mingle with society,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And play the humble host.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We will require her welcome.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For my heart speaks they are welcome.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer appears at the door</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">See, they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Both sides are even: here I'll sit i' the midst:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The table round.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Approaching the door</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There's blood on thy face.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">'Tis Banquo's then.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">'Tis better thee without than he within.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is he dispatch'd?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou art the best o' the cut-throats: yet he's good</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou art the nonpareil.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Most royal sir,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fleance is 'scaped.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As broad and general as the casing air:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With twenty trenched gashes on his head;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The least a death to nature.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thanks for that:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hath nature that in time will venom breed,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We'll hear, ourselves, again.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exit Murderer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My royal lord,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a-making,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Meeting were bare without it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sweet remembrancer!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now, good digestion wait on appetite,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And health on both!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">May't please your highness sit.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here had we now our country's honour roof'd,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Were the graced person of our Banquo present;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who may I rather challenge for unkindness</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Than pity for mischance!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ROSS</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">His absence, sir,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To grace us with your royal company.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The table's full.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here is a place reserved, sir.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Where?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which of you have done this?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lords</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What, my good lord?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou canst not say I did it: never shake</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thy gory locks at me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ROSS</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The fit is momentary; upon a thought</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He will again be well: if much you note him,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You shall offend him and extend his passion:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which might appal the devil.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">O proper stuff!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This is the very painting of your fear:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Impostors to true fear, would well become</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A woman's story at a winter's fire,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why do you make such faces? When all's done,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You look but on a stool.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">how say you?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If charnel-houses and our graves must send</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Those that we bury back, our monuments</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shall be the maws of kites.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What, quite unmann'd in folly?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If I stand here, I saw him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fie, for shame!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That, when the brains were out, the man would die,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And there an end; but now they rise again,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And push us from our stools: this is more strange</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Than such a murder is.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My worthy lord,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Your noble friends do lack you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I do forget.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And all to all.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lords</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our duties, and the pledge.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou hast no speculation in those eyes</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which thou dost glare with!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Think of this, good peers,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What man dare, I dare:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shall never tremble: or be alive again,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And dare me to the desert with thy sword;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If trembling I inhabit then, protest me</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Unreal mockery, hence!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why, so: being gone,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With most admired disorder.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Can such things be,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And overcome us like a summer's cloud,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Without our special wonder? You make me strange</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Even to the disposition that I owe,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When now I think you can behold such sights,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When mine is blanched with fear.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ROSS</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What sights, my lord?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Question enrages him. At once, good night:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Stand not upon the order of your going,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But go at once.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Good night; and better health</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Attend his majesty!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A kind good night to all!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Augurs and understood relations have</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Almost at odds with morning, which is which.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">At our great bidding?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Did you send to him, sir?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I hear it by the way; but I will send:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There's not a one of them but in his house</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And betimes I will, to the weird sisters:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">All causes shall give way: I am in blood</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Returning were as tedious as go o'er:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LADY MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You lack the season of all natures, sleep.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We are yet but young in deed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exeunt</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SCENE V. A Heath.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">HECATE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Have I not reason, beldams as you are,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Saucy and overbold? How did you dare</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To trade and traffic with Macbeth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In riddles and affairs of death;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And I, the mistress of your charms,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The close contriver of all harms,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Was never call'd to bear my part,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Or show the glory of our art?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And, which is worse, all you have done</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hath been but for a wayward son,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Loves for his own ends, not for you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But make amends now: get you gone,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And at the pit of Acheron</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Meet me i' the morning: thither he</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Will come to know his destiny:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Your vessels and your spells provide,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Your charms and every thing beside.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I am for the air; this night I'll spend</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Unto a dismal and a fatal end:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Great business must be wrought ere noon:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Upon the corner of the moon</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There hangs a vaporous drop profound;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'll catch it ere it come to ground:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And that distill'd by magic sleights</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shall raise such artificial sprites</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As by the strength of their illusion</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shall draw him on to his confusion:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And you all know, security</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is mortals' chiefest enemy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Music and a song within: 'Come away, come away,' & c</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hark! I am call'd; my little spirit, see,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exit</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back again.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exeunt</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SCENE VI. Forres. The palace.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enter LENNOX and another Lord</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which can interpret further: only, I say,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Things have been strangely borne. The</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">gracious Duncan</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who cannot want the thought how monstrous</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To kill their gracious father? damned fact!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How it did grieve Macbeth! did he not straight</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In pious rage the two delinquents tear,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For 'twould have anger'd any heart alive</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To hear the men deny't. So that, I say,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He has borne all things well: and I do think</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That had he Duncan's sons under his key--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As, an't please heaven, he shall not--they</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">should find</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What 'twere to kill a father; so should Fleance.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But, peace! for from broad words and 'cause he fail'd</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Macduff lives in disgrace: sir, can you tell</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Where he bestows himself?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lord</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The son of Duncan,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lives in the English court, and is received</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Of the most pious Edward with such grace</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That the malevolence of fortune nothing</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That, by the help of these--with Him above</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To ratify the work--we may again</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Do faithful homage and receive free honours:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">All which we pine for now: and this report</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hath so exasperate the king that he</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Prepares for some attempt of war.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sent he to Macduff?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lord</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He did: and with an absolute 'Sir, not I,'</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The cloudy messenger turns me his back,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And hums, as who should say 'You'll rue the time</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That clogs me with this answer.'</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And that well might</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fly to the court of England and unfold</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">His message ere he come, that a swift blessing</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">May soon return to this our suffering country</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Under a hand accursed!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lord</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'll send my prayers with him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exeunt</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ACT IV</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thunder. Enter the three Witches</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Round about the cauldron go;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In the poison'd entrails throw.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Toad, that under cold stone</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Days and nights has thirty-one</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Swelter'd venom sleeping got,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ALL</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Double, double toil and trouble;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fillet of a fenny snake,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In the cauldron boil and bake;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Eye of newt and toe of frog,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Wool of bat and tongue of dog,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For a charm of powerful trouble,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ALL</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Double, double toil and trouble;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fire burn and cauldron bubble.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Witches' mummy, maw and gulf</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Liver of blaspheming Jew,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Gall of goat, and slips of yew</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Finger of birth-strangled babe</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Make the gruel thick and slab:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For the ingredients of our cauldron.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ALL</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Double, double toil and trouble;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fire burn and cauldron bubble.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Cool it with a baboon's blood,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then the charm is firm and good.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enter HECATE to the other three Witches</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">HECATE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">O well done! I commend your pains;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And every one shall share i' the gains;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And now about the cauldron sing,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Live elves and fairies in a ring,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enchanting all that you put in.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' & c</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">HECATE retires</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">By the pricking of my thumbs,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Something wicked this way comes.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Open, locks,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whoever knocks!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enter MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What is't you do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ALL</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A deed without a name.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I conjure you, by that which you profess,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Though you untie the winds and let them fight</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Against the churches; though the yesty waves</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Confound and swallow navigation up;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Though castles topple on their warders' heads;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Though palaces and pyramids do slope</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Of nature's germens tumble all together,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Even till destruction sicken; answer me</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To what I ask you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Speak.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Demand.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We'll answer.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Or from our masters?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Call 'em; let me see 'em.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">From the murderer's gibbet throw</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Into the flame.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ALL</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come, high or low;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thyself and office deftly show!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Tell me, thou unknown power,--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He knows thy thought:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hear his speech, but say thou nought.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Apparition</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Descends</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou hast harp'd my fear aright: but one</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">word more,--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He will not be commanded: here's another,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">More potent than the first.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Apparition</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Apparition</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The power of man, for none of woman born</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shall harm Macbeth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Descends</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But yet I'll make assurance double sure,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And sleep in spite of thunder.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What is this</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That rises like the issue of a king,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And wears upon his baby-brow the round</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And top of sovereignty?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ALL</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Listen, but speak not to't.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Apparition</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shall come against him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Descends</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That will never be</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who can impress the forest, bid the tree</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Can tell so much: shall Banquo's issue ever</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Reign in this kingdom?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ALL</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Seek to know no more.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I will be satisfied: deny me this,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hautboys</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Show!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Second Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Show!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Third Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Show!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ALL</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come like shadows, so depart!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A show of Eight Kings, the last with a glass in his hand; GHOST OF BANQUO following</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A third is like the former. Filthy hags!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which shows me many more; and some I see</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Horrible sight! Now, I see, 'tis true;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And points at them for his.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Apparitions vanish</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What, is this so?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First Witch</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ay, sir, all this is so: but why</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And show the best of our delights:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'll charm the air to give a sound,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">While you perform your antic round:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That this great king may kindly say,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our duties did his welcome pay.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Music. The witches dance and then vanish, with HECATE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Stand aye accursed in the calendar!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come in, without there!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Enter LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What's your grace's will?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Saw you the weird sisters?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No, my lord.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Came they not by you?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No, indeed, my lord.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Infected be the air whereon they ride;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The galloping of horse: who was't came by?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Macduff is fled to England.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fled to England!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LENNOX</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ay, my good lord.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MACBETH</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The flighty purpose never is o'ertook</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Unless the deed go with it; from this moment</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The very firstlings of my heart shall be</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The firstlings of my hand. And even now,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The castle of Macduff I will surprise;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That trace him in his line. <b>No boasting like a fool</b>;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This deed I'll do before this purpose cool.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>But no more sights!</b>--Where are these gentlemen?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come, bring me where they are.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exeunta</i></span></div></div></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">In AD 922, Arab courtier </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Ahmad Ibn Fadlan</b> </font><font face="Georgia" size="5">accompanies </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>A Party </b><b>of Vikings</b> to </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The barbaric <b>North</b>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Ibn Fadlan is <b><u>appalled</u></b> by </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">the Vikings’ customs -- </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">their <b>wanton sexuality, </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">their <b><u>disregard</u> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>for cleanliness, </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">their <b>cold-blooded </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>Human Sacrifices</b></u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">And <i>then</i> he learns the <u>horrifying</u> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Truth : <b><u>He</u></b> has been enlisted </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">to combat <b>A Terror </b>that </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><i>slaughters</i> The Vikings </b>and </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>devours</u> </b><b>Their Flesh</b>……</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Ibn Al Abbas, </u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Ibn Rasid, </u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Ibn Hammad</u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>And things were </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><i>not</i> <u>always</u> thus. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">At one time, <b>I was A Poet,</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>in The Greatest City </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>in The World. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Life was easy, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">And I lived without care ... </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">until one fateful day </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">... </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">I met a beautiful woman ... </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">who belonged to another man. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Her jealous husband </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">complained to The Caliph ... </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">who made me <b><u>The Ambassador</u> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>to the land of the Tossuk Vlad -- </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">a country far to <u>The North</u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I was <u>banished</u> from My Home ... </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">and from <u>all</u> that I knew. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">So, I journeyed by camelback </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">many months into <b>the lands </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>of <u>barbarian peoples </u>-- </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">accompanied by <b><u>Melchisidek</u></b>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>an old friend of my father</u> -- </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">through the lands of the Ogus, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">the Khazars and the Bulgars, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">into the lands of murderous </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">bandits, called "Tartars," </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">who attack caravans, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">slaughtering everyone. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The Tartars are coming! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The Tartars are coming! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The Tartars -- </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Run! Run for Your Life! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They have stopped. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They are not following. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">A boat! A boat! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They're Northmen! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">A boat! A boat!</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Over there! Look! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They are going! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They are leaving! Move! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Move! Keep moving! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><i>Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi. </i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Wait, wait, wait! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Those Men in The Boat</u>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Who are They? </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u><b>The Northmen</b></u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Keep <i>moving</i> and Keep <u>quiet</u>! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Why</u>? <b>Are They Dangerous?</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"> It <u>depends</u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Maybe <b>They'll let Us go, </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Or maybe <b>They'll Kill Us. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>I am An <u>Ambassador</u></b>, damn it! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I am supposed to <b><u>Talk</u> to People! </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Melchisedec</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">You may <b><u>yet</u></b> have the opportunity.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">What do you suppose the potentate of </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>this</u> encampment calls himself? </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Oh, <i>Emperor</i>, at the <u>very</u> least. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Hmm. <u>Emperor</u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">We seek Your -- We seek </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Your Headman, Your <u>King</u>.</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Try Greek. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Hergar The Joyous</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Eh? </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">He Says <b>Their King is </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>out there</b> in <b><u>that</u> tent. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">He Says <b>The King will </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>not</u> Speak to Us. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Apparently, <b>The King </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><b>won't Speak </b></font><b style="font-family: Georgia;">to Us</b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">because </span><b style="font-family: Georgia;">He's Dead. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>This</u> is His Funeral. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">You are being introduced to </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">one of the Heirs-apparent --</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Buliwyf</u></b>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><b>"Buliwyf wishes </b></i><i><b>a </b></i><i><b>Song of Glory." </b></i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Georgia" size="5">Recite a <u>Poem</u>, a <u>Tale</u>. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Surely</u> you remember </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>something</i>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Uh -- <b><i>In The Beginning, </i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><font face="Georgia" size="5">The Earth was void, </font><font face="Georgia" size="5">and </font></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">the spirits </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">of God passed -- </span></font></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Now that there was a new King, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">The Northmen prepared for </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">the funeral of their <u>old</u> King. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>"We will burn him. </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">In one moment, </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">he </span></font></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">and all he owns </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">can </span></font></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><i><font size="5">be in paradise. </font></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i><br /></i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>These are our gifts to Our Lord </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>to support His Kingdom </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>in paradise. </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">To take <i>with</i> him? </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Lo there do I see my father. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">'Lo there do I see my mother, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">my sisters and my brothers. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">'Lo there do I see </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">the line of my people ... </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">back to the beginning. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">'Lo they do call to me. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They bid me take </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">my place among them </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">in the halls of Valhalla, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">where The Brave may </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">live <u>forever</u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><font face="Georgia" size="5">"She will Travel with him. </font></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>You will <u>not</u> see this again. </b></font></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>It is <u>the old way</u>." </b></font></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">Another ship arrived </font></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">during </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">the night. </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">There's <b>A Boy</b> </font><u style="font-family: Georgia;">standing</u><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">out there </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>on the bow</b> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">like</span><b style="font-family: Georgia;"> </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">he's<b> a statue. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>The Boy</b> is letting </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">them <b><u><i>see</i> him</u>. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">He's in <i>plain</i> <u>sight</u>! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>They Do Not <u>Know</u></b> if </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>What They <u>See</u></b> is <i>real</i>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Something to Do with The Mist</u>. Apparently, They find </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>dangerous</i> things, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>spirits</u> in The Mist. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Georgia" size="5">The Boy was being <u>polite</u>, </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">giving Them <i>time</i> to </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>decide</u> if <b>He's Real. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>He's A <u>Messenger</u>. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">He comes from <u>Their Homeland</u> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">in <b>The North</b> with </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><u>A Message</u></b> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">for <b>Buliwyf</b>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">He is <b>Wulfgar, </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Son of King Hrothgar</b>, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">a <b>Great King </b>from <b>The North.</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>He comes to ask Buliwyf for <i>help</i></u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>His Father's Kingdom </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>is under attack. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Their Village is <u>Destroyed</u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">They are <b>menaced</b> —</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">By an ancient evil, <b>A Terror.</b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>A Terror that has <u>no</u> name. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">A Terror that must <u><b>not</b></u> be named. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>Look</u> at Them. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">What thing would </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>affect</i> Them so? </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Hergar The Joyous</u> :</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">•<i>emphatically</i>•</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>NO</u>.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">"The Name <u><i>cannot</i></u> Be <u>Said</u>." </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>King Buliwyf</u></b> :</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><i>Speaks Commandingly </i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><i>in Norse</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">He <u>calls</u> for The Angel of Death. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">He calls for <u>The Bones</u>. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>She's An <u>Oracle</u>. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>The Oracle <b>rolls</b> </i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia">and <b>casts</b> </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The Bones, </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>renders <u>Judgment</u> </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">and</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>makes</u> Her <b>Oracular </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Pronouncements —</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">She calls for Men, a <u>number</u> of them. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Thirteen</u></b>. The number of </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>months</i> in <u>The Year</u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">She Says, "<b>13 Men must Go.</b>" </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><i>Men of The North </i></b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>start <u>volunteering</u></i></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia"> </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">to join <b>The Quest —</b></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Quickly, they approach </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><i>An <u>Even</u> Dozen.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Eight. Nine. Ten. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Eleven. Twelve. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">She Says, "<b>The 13th Man </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">must be <b><u>no</u> Northman</b>." </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Ibn</u><b> :</b> </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">(<i>absolutely <u>a</u><u>ppalled</u></i>)</font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">What The Hell </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">are </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">You </span><u style="font-family: Georgia;">Saying</u><span style="font-family: Georgia;">? </span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>The 13th Warrior</b> is <b><u>You</u>. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>He Thinks</u> <b>Your </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><font face="Georgia"><b>Horse </b></font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">is</span><b style="font-family: Georgia;"> <u>too small</u>. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Something about, "<b>Only an Arab </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Would bring A Dog to War.</b>" </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><u>He Wishes</u> to <b>Know </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Your Name.</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I am <b>Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Ibn Al Abbas, Ibn Rasid -- </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">"Eban."</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">No, no. <u>Listen</u>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">"<b>Ibn</b>" means "<b>Son of</b>". </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Eban</u></b>. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">Hyah! Hup! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">What is He Saying? </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Melchisedec</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">"Hurry to meet Death </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">before </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Your Place is <u>Taken</u>." </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">I will Not <u>Forget</u> You. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Go with God</u>. </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">You Listening? ... </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">tomorrow. ... </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">sneak up to steal ten </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">or twelve horses. ... </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">we can find some geese. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">So then He Says, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5">"Do not foretell Me wife, </font><font face="Georgia" size="5">for </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">I will get to know </font><span style="font-family: Georgia;">so-proven </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">aye comin home tonight."</font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"> <u>I</u> don't sound like <i>that</i>. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Roneth slept with her </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">while we took the horses. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Blowhards, both of you. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">She probably was some </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">smoke-colored camp girl. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Looked like <i>that</i> one's Mother. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><font size="5"><u>Ibn</u> :</font></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><font size="5"><u>My</u> <i>Mother</i> ... </font></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">was <b>A Pure Woman ... </b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">from a <u>noble</u> <b>Family. </b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">And <b><u>I</u>, at least, <i>know</i> </b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><b>Who My Father is</b>, you ... </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">pig-eating son of a whore. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><i>No, no, no, no, no! </i><b><u>Wait</u></b>! </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Come on, come on, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">come on, </span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">come on. <u>Come</u>. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Come on.</font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u><i>Where</i></u> did You learn </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><font size="5">Our Language? </font></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">I <u>Listened</u>! </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">You can draw ... </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">sounds? </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">"Draw sounds"? </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Yes</u>, <b>I can Draw Sounds, </b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">and <b>I can Speak them <u>back</u>.</b> </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><font size="5"><u>Show</u> me. </font></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">“<i>There is only one God ... </i></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">and Muhammad </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">is </span></font></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><i>His Prophet.</i>”</font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Bring me those sacks.</font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Hey! Mind yourself. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Be quiet. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Only an "Arab" ... </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">would bring -- </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">A Dog to War? I <u>heard</u> this </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">the <i>first</i> time. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Good going, "Arab." </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Come on. The dog can jump. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Here. - No, no. - Eat! </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Shouldn't we stay closer to land? </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">No, boy! </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">This is no day to be close to land! </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Odin! Odin! Odin! Down. - </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">What did you -- </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">What is that -- - </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Be silent. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Odin! Land!</font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Arab, <b><u>Speak</u> What I <u>Draw</u>.</b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><font size="5">“<i>There is only one God ... </i></font></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><i><font size="5">and Muhammad is his ... </font></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b><font size="5"><i>Prophet.</i>”</font></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Go. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Here. You'll <u>need</u> this. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">I cannot <i>lift</i> this. </font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Grow <u>stronger!</u></font></span></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114430537754622078.post-39271056010928848702024-03-07T14:18:00.000-08:002024-03-07T14:18:23.795-08:00VHS-Summer School Lesson 1 : Cujo — Good Dog, Lie Down. <div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" id="id_7e61_1fcb_81ce_5428" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Bi61Ong8YdqEdGN_fG0S26ugOKcWIF1QT42CwRYc8S1RkTypI79LMQziZj-O3_0dND0" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" title="" tooltip="" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="7"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">“I <u>want</u> My Daddy..!!”</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="7"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" id="id_9509_8b0e_4c0a_5382" src="https://media3.giphy.com/media/k3xNb0j62QulGXPkyZ/giphy.gif?cid=5e214886fce494bf62e8bd94961824b0c5fb9702d75cb6e8&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" title="" tooltip="" /><font face="Georgia" size="7"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></font><div><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5"><u>Mr Gary Grooberson</u> :</font></b></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">...are you okay...?</font></span></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font size="5"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><u>Callie</u></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> :</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><font size="5">Ah -- yeah. <b>First Day</b>.</font></span></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5">Can you <u><i>imagine</i></u> who they've </font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5">got teaching Summer School...?</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Mr Gary Grooberson</u> :</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5">I <u>can</u> -- <b><u>I</u> teach it.</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font size="5"><b style="font-family: Georgia;"><u>Callie</u></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> :</span></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5">Oh, I'm sorry.</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Mr Gary Grooberson</u> :</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5">Look -- most of the kids around here -- </font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>they're not very <u>bright</u>.</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5">[<i>a little boy pushes past them.]</i></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><i>Hey</i>, <u>Colin</u>. </font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">He's....</span></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>I can get them to do <br />whatever I <u>wan</u>t.</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Callie</u></b> :</font></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">[</span><i style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">Unenthusiastically/Not-Listening/Doesn't Care.</i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">] </span></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5">Score.</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b><u>Mr Gary Grooberson</u> :</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>DREAM job...(!)</b></font></div><div><br /></div><img alt="" id="id_f6d0_8daf_4ce0_7088" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jiAmJ4rII4VZC76Z2Qn8PprBkKinWOHTXBxmTYwDbEISkkxDlz4HV5x18AtV5IHvfkQ" style="height: auto; width: 353px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br /><br /><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="7"><b><u>VHS-Summer School Survival Skills</u></b> </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="7"><u><b>Lesson 1 :</b> Good Dog, Lie Down… </u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="7"><u>Just Lie Down, now…</u></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="7"><u>Lie Down and Die.</u></font></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" id="id_eec4_347e_2134_96a6" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/php8zIk4xyDqf4e_7Gf0KKmLieZjdNvCoPsv9ScwSHymKxD_5_HZiqYEEtd6qhGmzco" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br /><br /><img alt="" id="id_c768_e79d_7ddb_49c0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5rPR_KX1g5cGfgxkSMCO9ONKL1Gro4jmwJVGpe2JGUj6HB1rAIQvudX9tHEoNT1dwTo" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br /><br /><img alt="" id="id_ea17_2ef9_b6a_4aa1" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iiNmaP3DbazHRkTXoDuVI1vf3TjfjUZK09rH04wpBb8CbDjnPCo6KUR9HZDzSXikaUU" style="height: auto; width: 353px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br /><br /><font face="Georgia" size="7">Good Morning Class! </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Georgia" size="7">How's Everybody Doing Today...?</font><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">My Name's </font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><b>Mister Grooberson.</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">....I know. </font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><b>You don't wanna be here. </b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><b>I don't wanna be here, either.</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">Now, apparently--</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div><div><b><font face="Georgia" size="7">Your School is still operating on <u>VHS</u> --</font></b></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">But, I found this gem in The Teacher's Lounge :</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">It's called '<b><i>Cujo</i></b>' : It's about <b>a rabid St.Bernard that...</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">You know what, I don't want to give too much <i>away</i>, but --</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><b>Imagine 'Beethoven', </b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><b>if he contracted Rabies,</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><b>and then just started <u><i>mauling</i></u> children...!!</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">You get an idea -- <u>Enjoy</u>.</font></div><div><br /></div><br /><img alt="" id="id_8815_33af_91a0_7688" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qLa4T-nvI-VKtvKL9gZmZYqNkEzEu37BrEcS2I7kxZnEmQ9dLyaClMXchFmDhqAWiuQ" style="height: auto; width: 353px;" title="" tooltip="" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><img alt="" id="id_5b35_36ef_303d_c72b" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4xEM1tt1fXXrQx-OkCvUFtwprYHA_RVoIFXsyaK05sOocFnpD7KfTU5XfTaoBigypEw" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br /><img alt="" id="id_a7ab_9df5_5e87_2ee9" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/KfEB2rzMtuE73znxFwLf0ZHF15vq_Dd1gfvztfULAZcXBbnAvRizoJcIbc-Cbe0dTn4" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br /><img alt="" id="id_a434_149f_ba60_ae2d" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/uAW5QjBBjEiZeanH-eINiLUpuZEI-o4TRapd1Z5m9lPViCAx4Ja7YpE52l0C_g42tco" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br /><img alt="" id="id_cd10_e30c_409b_34" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/eTgXk2KQ0J6ZDA8yfikE9hdbbIcolAsfh7ghlkgw4lSpfEIbD5Kg34wOgPU5K-oyQSI" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" title="" tooltip="" /><br /><br /><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">Here in My Car</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">I feel Safest of All</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">I can lock all My Doors</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">It's the only way to Live, in Cars —</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">Here in My Car</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">I can only receive</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">I can Listen to You</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">It keeps me stable for days, in Cars</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">Here in My Car,</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">Where The Image breaks down</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">Will You visit Me please</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">If I open My Door in cars —</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">Here in My Car</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">I know I've started to think</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">About leaving tonight</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7">Although nothing seems right, in Cars</font></div><div><font face="Georgia" size="7"><br /></font></div></div>Spike1138http://www.blogger.com/profile/13711305584450933867noreply@blogger.com0