[HPforGrownups] Re: Politics (OT)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 5543


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From: "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at worldnet.att.net>
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Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Politics (OT)



>
> Perhaps those interested in debating the merits of Bush and  Gore - who,
> last time I checked, do not appear as characters in any of JKR's
writings -
> could repair themselves to one of the many fine newsgroups expressly
> designated as forums for political discussions (e.g.,
> alt.elections.politics), and reserve this forum for the discussion of
Harry
> Potter.

But as long as we're waxing simultaneously literary and political, here's a
passage from another British writer of some renown, which seemingly offers
some comment on Campaign 2000: (I thank Bookburn, of the newsgroup
humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare for bringing this passage to my
attention)

    - CMC

The Merchant of Venice
Act 3, Scene 2

PORTIA I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two
Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,
I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile.
There's something tells me, but it is not love,
I would not lose you; and you know yourself,
Hate counsels not in such a quality.
But lest you should not understand me well,--
And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,--
I would detain you here some month or two
Before you venture for me. I could teach you
How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;
So will I never be: so may you miss me;
But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,
That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,
They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;
One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours. O, these naughty times
Put bars between the owners and their rights!
And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,
Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.
I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time,
To eke it and to draw it out in length,
To stay you from ELECTION.