{"id":3391,"date":"2010-01-07T00:24:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T05:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2010-01-07T00:24:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T05:24:31","slug":"mayhap-el-knaverino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/mayhap-el-knaverino\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayhap El Knaverino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[He stains the rug]<\/p>\n<p>THE KNAVE<br \/>\nSir, prithee nay!<\/p>\n<p>BLANCHE<br \/>\nNow thou seest what happens, Lebowski, when the agreements of honourable business stand compromised. If thou wouldst treat money as water, flowing as the gentle rain from heaven, why, then thou knowest water begets water; it will be a watery grave your rug, drowned in the weeping brook. Pray remember, Lebowski.<\/p>\n<p>THE KNAVE<br \/>\nThou err\u2019st; no man calls me Lebowski. Yet thou art man; neither spirit damned nor wandering shadow, thou art solid flesh, man of woman born. Hear rightly, man!\u2014for thou hast got the wrong man. I am the Knave, man; Knave in nature as in name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t already laughing, you can move along to the next post now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[THE KNAVE\u2019s house. THE KNAVE is in his bath]<\/p>\n<p>THE KNAVE<br \/>\nI am conducted to a gentle bath.<br \/>\nWill all great Neptune\u2019s ocean wash this Knave<br \/>\nClean from the land?<br \/>\n[Alarums. Enter OLIVER and the two NIHILISTS, bearing a marmot]<br \/>\nForsooth! This be a place<br \/>\nOf residence, and much a private place.\u2014<br \/>\nO excellent marmot!<\/p>\n<p>OLIVER<br \/>\nAnon, we crave the money, Lebowski.<br \/>\nWe speak in neither jest nor fallacy.<br \/>\nWe could do such stuff as dreams do feature,<br \/>\nBelieving in nothing; empty and void.<br \/>\nTomorrow if thou hast not the ransom<br \/>\nWe shall recourse, and cut off thy Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>[Exeunt severally]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sam, of course, plays the Chorus.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHORUS<br \/>\nAy, there\u2019s a good one. How fares the Knave?<\/p>\n<p>THE KNAVE<br \/>\nSo foul and fair a day I have not seen.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<br \/>\nSuch a day, I mark thee, whereupon the winter of our discontent is ne\u2019er made glorious summer. A gentleman wiser than myself did say that on some such days, thou exits, pursued by a bear, and on others, the bear exits, pursued by you.<\/p>\n<p>THE KNAVE<br \/>\nBy my troth, a good philosophy. Was\u2019t of the Orient?<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<br \/>\nNay, far from it. I mark well thy fashion, good Knave.<\/p>\n<p>THE KNAVE<br \/>\nAnd I thy fashion, stranger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this post isn&#8217;t just meaningless ramblings to you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runleiarun.com\/lebowski\/\">go see it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Ummm&#8230; [He stains the rug] THE KNAVE Sir, prithee nay! BLANCHE Now thou seest what happens, Lebowski, when the agreements of honourable business stand compromised. If thou wouldst treat money as water, flowing as the gentle rain from heaven, why, then thou knowest water begets water; it will be a watery grave your rug, drowned in the weeping brook. 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