Posted on 09/16/2012 12:01:04 PM PDT by EveningStar
Well, you got me there.
There’s no evidence whatsoever Shakespeare never visited the Magic Island of “The Tempest” and the Magic Forest in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” And it’s also entirely possible he time travelled back to ancient Rome and was in the Senate gallery when Caesar got ventilated.
Maybe he did a A LOT of traveling when he was in the Navy and didn’t just make it all up. You know, like how Rowling graduated from Hogwarts.
Touche.
There is some evidence that Shakespeare was a Catholic agent. Therefore involved in the clandestine war between Protestantism & Catholicism for control of the English throne. I don't know how legitimate the evidence is. Marlowe was clearly involved in this. The point I was making; if true, the danger, the uncertainty, the moral ambiguity. All more then adequate for a talented man to reflect deeply on the metaphysics of it all. Assimilate it and then represent metaphorically in his plays and poems.
CC
“I still maintain that you can’t be a good writer without some interesting life experiences.”
Uh-huh. Try selling that at a Jane Austen book club meeting.
Remember her? She was a female outlaw race car driving big game hunting — oh, wait. No, she wasn’t. She lived quietly with her family in the country. And never married. Or had kids. Or a job. And rarely went anywhere. And died very young.
She was only the greatest English novelist. Yes, better than Dickens.
“There is some evidence that Shakespeare was a Catholic agent. “
There is no evidence whatsoever to suggest he was anything of the kind.
“I don’t know how legitimate the evidence is.”
It isn’t. And what does Marlowe have to do with any of this? And don’t say he wrote the plays. He didn’t.
The problem with any future Trek series is that it’s almost guaranteed that a gay male will be one of the main characters. There is a vocal group of fans demanding this. You can count me out.
The way I piss them off. “By the 24th century, they discovered and eradicated the gay gene.” LOL.
Their weakest crutch in writing was the holodeck.
I am pretty much tired of all sci-fi as it’s mainly used as a prop for socialist propaganda.
I did and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
BTW...Jerry Doyle is a hard core conservative.
It’s interesting that the greatest writer America ever produced, Samuel Clemens, did a helluva lot of things before he started writing.
Their is a book out by a British historian who makes the case he was a Catholic agent. I will try to find the title.
And you have seen this historian’s evidence? or even read the book? otherwise how do you know the evidence is or is not legitimate?
and please don’t divert the discussion! I do not think Marlowe wrote or anybody else for that matter for Shakespeare. (Though there are a number of people who make that argument. Which I find “interesting”!)
most good fiction writers do!
Supposedly, Roddenberry created the transporter because they didn’t have the budget to do extended shuttle crafts scenes.
I’m shocked they got anyone inside those shuttlecraft; seems every time they left the Enterprise they had major problems...
Seven of Nine - aka 38-24-36 of nine, correctly complained in her SEALED divorce records that her husband TWICE took her to sex clubs wanting to do it with her in front of other people.
I realize that she was smoking hot, I guess he thought “someone else needs to see this!” - but he was wrong.
The lesson to be learned is...
1) don’t take your smoking hot wife to a sex club.
2) don’t discuss anything under ‘sealed’ divorce records if you are a Republican - because Democrat appointed judges have no honor.
“Hey - I got this great series with a longterm storyline about interstellar war, while also being episodic - about a space station not a ship - with a Captain with some mystical connections.” JMS
“Sorry not interested”
“Hey they got this great show called Babylon 5 on another network!”
“OK, I imagine a Star Trek show with a longterm storyline about interstellar war, while also being episodic; about a space station not a ship - with a Captain with mystical connections.
RIPOFF!!! But Michael Dorn was good in it - and the shapeshifter guy who never seemed to shapeshift.
“Hey - I got this great series with a longterm storyline about interstellar war, while also being episodic - about a space station not a ship - with a Captain with some mystical connections.” JMS
“Sorry not interested”
“Hey they got this great show called Babylon 5 on another network!”
“OK, I imagine a Star Trek show with a longterm storyline about interstellar war, while also being episodic; about a space station not a ship - with a Captain with mystical connections.
RIPOFF!!! But Michael Dorn was good in it - and the shapeshifter guy who never seemed to shapeshift.
B5 has aged well, I watch the series on DVD (one episode is perfect for some treadmill time).
I did enjoy DS9 during that period as well. Quark developed into an interesting character. The same actor (Armin Shimerman) played one of the bad guys in the Atlas Shrugged movie, which was a hoot to me.
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