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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Troy.Heagy@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Paul Harper wrote:   
   >> dialogue is some of the shittiest exposition I have every had to listen   
   >> to. When his characters were *supposed* to be making speeches, then   
   >> fine, but even when they weren't, they were *still* making speeches.   
   >   
   > ..   
   >   
   > Sounds like Shakespeare.   
      
   ...or Tennessee Williams, or Tom Stoppard, or (despite what your English   
   teacher told you) Anton Chekhov, or Harold Pinter, or Dennis Potter, or,   
   for that matter, Jane Austen, or J. R. R. Tolkien, or (despite his own   
   best efforts) Isaac Asimov, or even "Doc" Smith.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   The solemn hour, when night and morning meet,   
   Mysterious time, to superstition dear,   
   And superstition’s guides, now passes by;   
   Deathlike in solitude. The sentinels,   
   In drowsy tones, from post to post, send on   
   The signal of the passing hour. All’s well,   
   Sounds through the camp. Alas! all is not well;   
   Else, why stand I, a man, the friend of man,   
   At midnight’s depth, deck’d in this murderous guise,   
   The habiliment of death, the badge of dire,   
   Necessitous coercion. ’Tis not well.   
   —In vain the enlighten’d friends of suffering man   
   Point out, of war, the folly, guilt, and madness.   
   Still, age succeeds to age, and war to war;   
   And man, the murderer, marshalls out his hosts   
   In all the gaiety of festive pomp,   
   To spread around him death and desolation.   
   How long! how long!————————   
      -- William Dunlap: "André: A tragedy in five acts" (1798)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)