Steinbeck, Pah!
Shakespeare Rules!

Enter GLOUCESTER.
 Glo.   Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings;
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visag’d war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front;
And now,—instead of mounting barbed steeds,
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,—
He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shap’d for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deform’d, unfinish’d, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew’d up,
About a prophecy, which says, that G
Of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here Clarence comes.


I also quote Tennyson at the drop of a byte:

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.


Eat Your heart out Grisham!

Cheers

Bob "The Brit" Browett




--- Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> After a quick Google search, I found the original
> phrase "Now is the winter
> of our discontent" to have indeed originated with
> William Shakespeare's
> Richard III.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Denys. . .
>
> Denys Beauchemin
> HICOMP
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denys Beauchemin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 6:47 AM
> To: 'Roy Brown'; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: Lewis Platt Rejects the Merger
>
> If you cycle back to 17 Nov 1999, you will see I
> posted the following terse
> message (#069159) on 3000-L:
>
> Does this make Lew Platt, the vintner of our disc
> contents?
>
> This was in response to Nick Demos and a few other
> making comments about Lew
> becoming the CEO of Kendall-Jackson and HP needing
> to merge with KJ.
>
> The message was paraphrasing John Steinbeck, not
> Shakespeare.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Denys. . .
>
> Denys Beauchemin
> HICOMP
> (800) 323-8863  (281) 288-7438         Fax: (281)
> 288-7438
> denys at hicomp.com
> www.hicomp.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Roy Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 6:17 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Lewis Platt Rejects the Merger
>
> "Russ Smith" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
> news:a60q0a0h6b@enews3.newsguy.com...
>
> > When he was chairman and chief executive of
> Hewlett-Packard (news/quote),
> > Lewis E. Platt helped choose Carleton S. Fiorina
> as his successor in 1999.
> >
> > But he is opposing the company's planned purchase
> of Compaq Computer
> > (news/quote), a merger that if rejected by
> shareholders will certainly
> bring
> > Ms. Fiorina's downfall at Hewlett-Packard. And Mr.
> Platt visited an
> > influential shareholder advisory firm,
> Institutional Shareholder Services
> in
> > Rockville, Md., last week to explain why he is
> against the deal Ms.
> Fiorina
> > has championed, according to people with knowledge
> of his trip.
>
> > But industry analysts doubt if Mr. Platt, 60,
> would take the job or be
> > offered it. After leaving Hewlett-Packard in 1999,
> Mr. Platt became chief
> > executive of Kendall-Jackson, a California winery.
> Last year, he left that
> > post.
>
> Didn't Shakespeare say something like:
> 'Lew is the vintner of our discontent'
> ?:-)
>
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