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In an age of texting & twittering,
how would some of the great oratorical
& literary masterpieces of histoy
be interpreted today? The first 140 characters of...
Hamlet's Soliloquy
By William Shakespeare
To
be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind
to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms
against a sea of troubles, An--
--d by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
Ann Coulter., .noted 21st Century 'pundit.'
....................offers her 140 character TWEET
2 B or NOT 2 B. THTS the ?
Is it better 2 sling arrows
or kick butt? if commies
or dems...kick em.
Bt I do like a rub.
But what does ths crap mean?
'grunt' THIS libs.
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