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“Pursu’d by agents sinister and cold…” [Darleen Click]

Star Wars by William Shakespeare (pdf)

PROLOGUE.
Outer space.
Enter
CHORUS

CHORUS
It is a period of civil war.
The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift
From base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er
The cruel Galactic Empire, now adrift.
Amidst the battle, rebel spies prevail’d
And stole the plans to a space station vast,
Whose pow’rful beams will later be unveil’d
And crush a planet: ’tis the DEATH STAR blast.
Pursu’d by agents sinister and cold,
Now Princess Leia to her home doth flee,
Deliv’ring plans and a new hope they hold:
Of bringing freedom to the galaxy.
In time so long ago begins our play,
In star-crossed galaxy far, far away.

[Exit]

h/t VA Viper

39 Replies to ““Pursu’d by agents sinister and cold…” [Darleen Click]”

  1. guinspen says:

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    Rob Scuderi !!!!

  2. leigh says:

    Yessssss!

  3. BigBangHunter says:

    – Tales from “Teh Militarizations”, here and here, but not here.

  4. BigBangHunter says:

    ….and here a little.

  5. Darleen says:

    Awesomeness

    I didn’t even realize it was a full book until I clicked through your link!

    Just ordered the hardcover, rather than Kindle this time, because I want to see those illustrations.

  6. Darleen says:

    BBH

    ABC aren’t real officers and these 6 assholes coming out of the dark to SWAT some young women is beyond the pale.

    I don’t give a flip if the charges are dropped. These guys need to have their asses fired and the agency needs to be fined in the millions.

  7. happyfeet says:

    cops are fags what can you do

  8. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Since I don’t do the twitter thang, and since this is the top thread:
    From the sidebar:

    oh, I see. We’re to bracket the massive popular uprising. And no thanks by the way. Keep your 3 King Georges, I’ll keep my Paine.

    Paine is a pain. Or at least can be.

  9. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Meaning, I like Common Sense; and really wish he’d have dropped dead of alcohol poisoning, or some damn thing, before writing anything else.

  10. happyfeet says:

    that’s so mean

  11. Ernst Schreiber says:

    What can I say? I have a hard heart.

  12. happyfeet says:

    it’s ok I was just startled by your vehemence

  13. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Let me put it this way, I’ve read : “The Rise and the Funcion of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity” And The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Funcion in Latin Christianity and Authority and the Sacred: Apsects of the Christianization of the Roman Worldas well, and you haven’t.

    Dead thinkers of Deep Thoughts are more useful than live ones.

  14. -I guess I have a hard heart too, then.

    Paine devolved into Leftism, though I suspect the virus was like shingles – lurking and waiting to break out.

    -As for [Red] Star Wars: I agree with Jonathan Last and his The Case for the Empire.

  15. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Paine didn’t devolve into leftism. He was a radical before our revolution, and remained one thereafter.

    That’s what makes him a pain of a Paine.

  16. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Say what you will about Burke (I’m looking at you, Tracy Coyle) but at least he knew enough to discriminate between our revolution and the French one.

  17. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I didn’t mean that as accusatorily against Tracy as the black letters against a white screen make it seem. You have to imagine me pointing a beer bottle at Tracy while we all sit around the campfire, shooting the shit, so to speak.

  18. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Also, I’ve just remembererd that feets wrote something late on the third (or perhaps early on the fourth) that I didn’t want to leave unremarked upon, but it was late and I had to be on the road early yesterday. Now I need to go find it again.

  19. happyfeet says:

    best let sleeping dogs lie sometimes

  20. Ernst Schreiber says:

    HAH! found it.

  21. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I was never very good at resolving the discretion is the better part of valor equation, obviously.

  22. Ernst Schreiber says:

    No, seriously, I found it.

    Stoopid html

  23. Darleen says:

    Ernst

    can you give me the link without embedding it? I’ll correct your links then

  24. Ernst Schreiber says:

    https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=49924#comment-1000435

    I feel foolish

    Fortunately, that’s not an unfamiliar sensation. So I carry on.

  25. From Russell Kirk’s essay, ‘A Revolution Not Made, But Prevented’:

    …In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, as earlier, Burke strongly approves the Revolution of 1688. “The Revolution was made to preserve our antient
    indisputable laws and liberties, and that antient constitution of government which is our only security for law and liberty,” Burke declares.

    The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror. We wished at the period of the Revolution, and do now wish, to derive all we possess as an inheritance from our forefathers. Upon that body and stock of inheritance we
    have taken care not to inoculate any cyon alien to the nature of the original plant. All the reformations we have hitherto made, have proceeded upon the principle of reference to antiquity; and I hope, nay I am persuaded, that all those which possibly may be made
    hereafter, will be carefully formed upon analogical precedent, authority, and example.

    The Whig apology for the expulsion of James II, then-here so succinctly expressed by Burke-was that James had begun to alter for the worse the old constitution of England: James was an innovator. As Burke writes elsewhere in the Reflections, “To have made a revolution is a measure which, prima fronte, requires an apology.” A very similar apology, we shall see, was made by the American leaders in their quarrel with king and Parliament, and for their act of separation. The Whig magnates had prevented James II from working a revolution; the American Patriots had prevented George III from working a revolution (a revolution, that is, in the twentieth-century sense of the word). If the events of 1688 and
    1776 were revolutions at all, they were counter-revolutions, intended to restore the old constitutions of government. So, at any rate, runs the Whig interpretation of history.

    Source: http://www.mmisi.org/ma/29_04/kirk.pdf

  26. Apologies for the formatting problems with the Russell Kirk quote. I copied it from the scanned PDF and attempted to correct all of the formatting issues, but failed. I blame this abject FAIL on my part to having celebrated our Glorious Independence Day with too much gusto [and Maker’s Mark].

  27. BigBangHunter says:

    – Its always best to call out scurvey dogs and Progressive posers, and its simply impossible to be foolish if you’re over the Mustard toes target Ernst.

  28. Darleen says:

    ok, I corrected the first link. Let me know, Ernst, if you want me to retire the related comments.

  29. Ernst Schreiber says:

    It only looks silly and stupid because it was silly and stupid, so why try to disguise it by pretending it never happened?

    Leave ’em as they lay.

  30. newrouter says:

    note to html fail – make a notepad file with blockquote and link tags or any others

  31. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Never Apologize for too much Maker’s Mark, Bob.

    Unless, that is, your apologizing for being selfish with your Maker’s Mark.

    In which case, learn to share, you damn drunken Irishman.

  32. Now, Ernst, I thought you were a friend!

    Insulting me by calling me an ‘Irishman’! That’s low – a low-blow.

  33. BigBangHunter says:

    – Besides giving drunks everywhere a bad name.

  34. I am proud to be a Professional Dipsomaniac!

  35. BigBangHunter says:

    – Live feed from Tahrir square with English texting.

  36. newrouter says:

    do those folks ever sleep?

  37. BigBangHunter says:

    – Al Jazeera – English version world news.

  38. serr8d says:

    “Pursu’d by agents sinister and cold…”

    Sounds like a line from something submitted to the Trayvon Defense and Poetic Society .

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