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CRUSADES 21ST CENTURY
May be their ear buds are blocking the sound of bombs dropping in the mideast. Perhaps their thongs are to tight and cutting off the blood flow to their brains.
The world never leaves the Shakespearean stage it just gets a little clearer from time to time. The actors rehearse and the villains rub their huge bellies and twist their invisible mustaches.
The idiot son inherits the throne through subterfuge and you get the minions of evil running through the halls of the castle plotting their wicked little schemes.
"Alas, Poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that."
Hamlet, Act Five, Sc.1
In this case poor Yorick is elevated to King and is bounced upon the knees of alter egos. Horatio listens to the sounds of breaking glass and wonders is the pig ready.
"....You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together. And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also."
-Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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