Dry & I are starting a literary battle of wits. He will use Shakespeare, and I get the Bible. Anyone else is welcome to join in, but if you want to do more than just post an occasional “well struck!” or “foul” or “OWWW”, then you have to follow the rules. 1. You get a literary source, and not one used by anyone else. Just one. 2. In order to keep it up to IMHO status, we will use educational sources, not “Milton Berles Laff book”, ie Great Books. 3. And, yes, it is a duel, and yes it will be slightly flame-like, but we are only playing “can you top this”, not really being nasty.
Fire one! Prov. 19:1 “Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and a fool”.
I don’t get the goal here, but I like the concept. I’ll go with the screenplay to Pulp Fiction, truly a great work…
Jules: “It ain’t no ballpark either. Look maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but touchin’ his lady’s feet, and stickin’ your tongue in her holyiest of holyies, ain’t the same ballpark, ain’t the same league, ain’t even the same fuckin’ sport. Foot massages don’t mean shit.”
“O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who
for the most part are capable of nothing but
inexplicable dumbshows and noise”
–Hamlet, Act 3, scene ii
“And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
–Richard III, Act 1, scene iii
“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though lock’d up in steel
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.”
–King Henry VI, Act 3, scene ii
I’ll use ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
Prov 14:9 “Fools make a mock of sin; but amoung the righteous there is favor”
"I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless!
I will just be kibitzing though. My source is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
I am using Michael Swanton’s translation and notation:
A= The Winchester Manuscript
A2= The Wheloc Manuscript
B= The Elder Abington Manuscript
C= The Younger Abington Manuscript ( incorporating the Mercian Register )
D= The Worcester Manuscript
E= The Peterborough Manuscript
F= The Canturbury Manuscript
( The manuscript notation is followed by the year of the entry)
Danielinthewolvesden:
E-654 And he was a great friend of God, and all people loved him, and he was very nobly born and powerful. He is now much more powerful with Christ.