Shakespeare meme and drabble

Taken from shinodabear and mygothangel:

When you see a Shakespeare quote in a journal, post one in yours.

Well, this is possibly the coolest last words of any action movie anti-hero ever - Sam Jackson times Clint Eastwood CUBED - and it was written over 400 years ago. (And it annoys me to no end that the recent movie version somehow managed to cut this out - as if it wasn't bad enough to start with. I mean, you should see how they bring Birnam Wood to Dunsinane... what are they smoking in Australia?) Anyway, Macbeths realization that he's been duped by fate and that everything has been set up for him to bite it at the end:

MACBETH: I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"

Man, that Willie S wrote some good stuff.

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Oh, and here's a drabble for open_on_sunday's challenge "Hunt":

That Nice Man

Sometimes, Anya made fun of Xander's collection of DVD box sets. Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, all Star Treks including the animated series... come on.

She always felt a little guilty about it, though. After all, it wasn't his fault that there wasn't a decent DVD collection of her favourite TV show.

So she hung onto her worn-out VHS tapes. She'd seen every episode more times than she could count, but still kept hoping that maybe this time... watching for every little pop culture reference, she'd mouth her hero's lines along with the TV:

"Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits."

Shakespeare meme and drabble

Taken from shinodabear and mygothangel:

When you see a Shakespeare quote in a journal, post one in yours.

Well, this is possibly the coolest last words of any action movie anti-hero ever - Sam Jackson times Clint Eastwood CUBED - and it was written over 400 years ago. (And it annoys me to no end that the recent movie version somehow managed to cut this out - as if it wasn't bad enough to start with. I mean, you should see how they bring Birnam Wood to Dunsinane... what are they smoking in Australia?) Anyway, Macbeths realization that he's been duped by fate and that everything has been set up for him to bite it at the end:

MACBETH: I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"

Man, that Willie S wrote some good stuff.

---

Oh, and here's a drabble for open_on_sunday's challenge "Hunt":

That Nice Man

Sometimes, Anya made fun of Xander's collection of DVD box sets. Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, all Star Treks including the animated series... come on.

She always felt a little guilty about it, though. After all, it wasn't his fault that there wasn't a decent DVD collection of her favourite TV show.

So she hung onto her worn-out VHS tapes. She'd seen every episode more times than she could count, but still kept hoping that maybe this time... watching for every little pop culture reference, she'd mouth her hero's lines along with the TV:

"Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits."