"That's in Julius Caesar?"
Nope - urban legend from a less than urbane mind.
Mark's point is that, no, that isn't in Julius Caesar.
Plus Shakespeare would never use such stilted prose!
Additional read of Mark Steyn's sparkling prose:
"Q: I want to start with Benedict XVI. Rarely have I seen mainstream media turn and bare their teeth as quickly as they have towards Benedict, Mark Steyn. Why? And what does it tell us about media?
Mark Steyn: Well, I think they were rooting for Ellen Degeneres or Rupert Everett. And the fact that the new Pope is, in fact, a Catholic, seems to have come as a great surprise to them. And, you know, each to their own. But if, for example, social conservatives were to complain that the new editor of the New York Times wasn't Rush Limbaugh or you or William F. Buckley, that would sound equally ridiculous. The fact is, institutions are allowed to act in what they see is their own interest. And this, in fact, is just rather childish, this reaction to the Pope. They're sort of, they seem genuinely bewildered that the Cardinals of the Catholic Church think differently on these issues, from Andrew Sullivan and the New York Times."
http://www.radioblogger.com/#000628
Excerpt:
"When it was pointed out that her Shakespeare speech was an obvious Internet hoax, Barbra said, who cares? "Whoever wrote this is damn talented, and should be writing their own play." Maybe. But, what with those drums of war whipped into the fever pitch of a double-edged sword all within a single paragraph, I say the guy should be manning the Fresh Vivid Imagery desk at Associated Press.
Yet in the midst of that unreadable sludge of clich s, the AP's desert bard came up with one unreadable sludgy clich that gets the gist of its Iraq coverage better than anything: "Yet again, almost as if scripted" – Isn't that precisely the problem? It is pre-scripted. The good folk of Basra and Kirkuk don't spring out of bed each morning saying, "Ah, another day of hope," only to trudge off to dreamland 16 hours later wondering why yet again the day of hope turned into a day of tears, daring to sing yet another chorus of "The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow" but knowing deep down chances are the Sunni'll come out tomorrow and blow up the schoolhouse.
As we learned on election day in January, that doomy drivel is imposed on the Iraqi people by the media's pre-scripters. War coverage that comes "almost as if scripted" wouldn't be so bad if they had any scripts in the cupboard except the old instant Vietnam re-make formula. But once the fellows holed up in the Green Zone hotels decided that the war was ye olde Vietnam quagmire, everyone else got the hang of the formula pretty quickly. "
Ping!
What a great idea! People love alternatives! (Can I get that job at the AP now?)