Like a lemming

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones:
So let it be with Caesar.

From Julius Caesar (Act III, scene ii)

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I've a particular fondness for this speech, since the time I helped organize my fellow English students to perform selected scenes from Julius Caesar. I was Caesar, and I also directed, which may explain why my castmates' favorite scene was my death. As the performances went on, they wielded the foil-covered cardboard daggers with increasing glee.

The girl who played Mark Antony was a good friend, but could never memorize her speech. So we had a secretary type it up in large type, and then it was carefully taped to the inside of my toga. As my lifeless body was positioned on the table that served as the funeral bier, the last act was to undo the top fold of the toga so she could read the speech. None of the audience, including our teachers, ever caught on.

I, of course, had memorized the speech by this time, but then I had nothing better to do while I lay there playing dead.

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[janni.livejournal.com]

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I've come to bury Caesar, not stand here in a pile of ears.

(Sorry. Saw that on a cheap greeting card years ago, and it's been stuck in my brain ever since. :-)

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Hee!