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| A Shakespearean Rag (A Techno-Parable) by Frank Edler |
Photograph by Diego Meozzi |
Hotspur: Look there, York! Cast thine eyes upon the fair Plain of Salis- bury! It hath always had great truck with me. York: [aside] Methinks he doth propose a queer sense of trucking! Sirah, best get thyself to a nunnery! [to Hotspur] My Lord, it doth present a truckly aspect. Hotspur: Mark the scene well, York. Some awful invention haunts yonder celestial engine. |
York:
[aside]
Truck and more
truck!
When will this
metaphor end?
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Hotspur: What, ho! How now! a rat! This be no Plain of Salis- bury! And that no Stonehenge! [rubbing his eyes] What mischievous sprite hath cast a spell on us? Our emerald isle is no more! York: Nay, nay, my lord! The heavens are yet the heavens! Thy sight hath been tricked to another apparition, yet Stonehenge doth still stand before us! Hotspur: Canst thou cipher this weird land? O, I am bereft of dis- course! My words are as brittle as yonder meadow and will not bundle.They will have no truck with this carrioned place. York: [aside] A pox on the word 'truck'! [to Hotspur] Say no more, my lord! Methinks crusaders have spoken of the Holy Land as such a scorched locality and -- |
Hotspur: