Today’s Totally Random
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No, I’ll die here. [Drawing his sword]
There’s some among you have beheld me
fighting:
Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Coriolanus Act III, Scene i, Line 222
The crowd, for
the most part being spurred on by the two weaselly tribunes (akin to U. S. Representatives),
is calling for Caius Marcius’s head. They’re are yelling that he should be dragged
to the cliff at the Tarpeian Rock and thrown off it. That’s when Caius Marcius
draws his sword against the crowd with Today’s Line. His buddies Cominius and Meninius talk
him down before he can start killing people, but it’s a tense moment brought about by an unruly
crowd being led by two unscrupulous tribunes.
This is a complicated play. No one is fully in the right or wrong, though in my opinion the two tribunes are more in the wrong than anyone else. If for no other reason than that it does such a good job of pointing out the complexities of effective government, this is a play that should be taught in high schools today.
But what do I know?
Now here's a couple of guys who should be in charge. They would keep things running smoothly. Look at them. Sam was about to head off to find a sunbeam or something, and Mojo was just sitting there scratching.
I said, "Hey, guys, can you give me a nice pose for a pic," and they stopped and sat for me.
"Nice," I said. "Now, one more for a closeup."
"Perfect!"
No unruly mob here!
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