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@Vainglory: I'm pretty sure this means she isn't happy. Just thought you might need some help deciphering that.
Sent by his father Masayuki to train amongst the famed Hidetora and his sons, young Yukimura relishes in the hunt. Spurring on his horse to chase the boar that was spotted, he readies his bow. Back at home, his elder brother Nobuyuki had always managed to get the finishing shot during a hunt, but this time, Yukimura would not falter. The name of the Sanada was at stake. His name was at stake!
To take advice from one who lives upon
The shaking isle to south of this fair land
I fear would see the brave Macbeth reduced
To seek, as is the custom there, a bed
Within a manger; to lie among the sheep
Damnit, iambic pentameter is hard to write.
The shaking isle to south of this fair land
I fear would see the brave Macbeth reduced
To seek, as is the custom there, a bed
Within a manger; to lie among the sheep
Damnit, iambic pentameter is hard to write.
Yes. Your options are:
Titania - Queen of the Faeries
Hippolyta - Queen of the Amazons, soon to be Duchess of Athens
Helena - lady of Athens, loves Demetrius, described as tall, slim, and blonde "a painted maypole", insecure and obsessive
Hermia - lady of Athens, loves Lysander, described as short, but as pretty as Helena, wealthy
You could also be one of the genderless fairies...Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed.
That last line is making my ears bleed...how about:
"In manger lying man to wife his sheep"
I keep going over it, I'm sure it's correct technically, but it reads like crap I agree.
Much better, although I'd have "In manger lying man to wife with sheep" because I find that easier to understand.
Pastoral pleasures may surely be found
In this fair land if that is what you crave;
Yet doubts remain if even animals
Would find one such as you deserving lust.
In this fair land if that is what you crave;
Yet doubts remain if even animals
Would find one such as you deserving lust.
This raises to 2 the number of people on this forum who have been insulted in amateurish iambic pentameter. Already Bagricula has created a memorable game. Give me two hours to grind out a riposte, Kiwi.
If full two hours are needed for response,
One need not wonder why you fell so low
As using crude and lowly barbs unasked
On poor dear Walrus without second thought
One need not wonder why you fell so low
As using crude and lowly barbs unasked
On poor dear Walrus without second thought
I read it as:
Within / a man / ger; to / lie a / mong the / sheep
But I may have missed an elision.
I used 'his' to imply that 'wife = sheep' instead of a man-wife-sheep three-way...
...which would also be horrifyingly kinky.
Excellent, Vainglory, let's keep it up:
Waiting for riposte,
Smiling at feudal poems'
Barbed arrow attack.
Smiling at feudal poems'
Barbed arrow attack.
Poetry is a consistent marker of the Sinosphere's elite.
No, no, even with my accent there's no way to lose a syllable there. I just lost count when I added the last few syllables. Damnit! In my defense, the extra unstressed syllable ending isn't that uncommon in Shakespeare.
Yeah I understood that, I just a difference of opinion I suppose, on which is easier to make sense of.
Not in New Zealand.
A friend of mine once inadvertently wrote me a text message that was a Haiku. I spotted it immediately and could not stop laughing for several minutes. I was tempted to reply in a Haiku myself, but couldn't quite get it right.
As Macbeth and Touchstone tee-off against each other, three elderly ex-geishas tend the tea-kettle:
One dips a thin bony finger in.
"OWWIE!" she cries leaping back, blowing her finger with expert precision.
Another shuffles forward and beckons Macbeth:
Cackling, they return to their tea, then the second beckons Edmund Blackadder closer.
"Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
One dips a thin bony finger in.
"OWWIE!" she cries leaping back, blowing her finger with expert precision.
Another shuffles forward and beckons Macbeth:
"Be Earl of Lee and Catch the Blacken'd Wurm,
Ride o'er the privy wards to steal his pence,
Then Late, with Fools your Glory, Thane, will earn,
And King become, but Father never hence.
Ride o'er the privy wards to steal his pence,
Then Late, with Fools your Glory, Thane, will earn,
And King become, but Father never hence.
Cackling, they return to their tea, then the second beckons Edmund Blackadder closer.
The rumble of the horses sounded like war-drums in the ears of Sanada Yukimura, the crimson demon of war. He had twiced rounded on the ancient boar, loosing his arrows without thought, adopting the 'no-mind' center he had trained with everyday, yet twice he had lost the way and the boar turned aside sending his shaft into the turf.
The young warror of the Sanada Clan turned his horse again. His quarry stood in a vast open field of sea-green grass, its red hide like the eye of the sun in the face of the sky. Yukimura spurred his horse onward charging the indecisive old man of the plain. He began to enter the flow, his hands falling to his bow, his thighs tightening to steady his gaze.
Then opposite him, across the great boar, burst Hideyoshi, daimyo of the Toyotomi Clan. The two warriors locked eyes, would they cooperate, would they compete, or would their quarry escape and both lose the honor of the final kill?
Incidentally, this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with these two player's mechanical-roles. I'm merely facilitating a close historical relationship. Bad! Bad paranoid players!
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But paranoid players are the tastie.... I mean best players! Best!
Though Yukimura's loyalty to the Toyotomi would grow to be legendary, for now, the hunt is all that matters. Yukimura spurs on his horse and chases the boar, ignoring those around him. The brashness of youth fuels his veins, not caring about the possible political ramifications of upstaging the man who is walking the path that Nobunaga laid out.
PS: If Yukimura is quite young and Hideyoshi has established the Toyotomi clan, then I'd say we're somewhere between 1583 and 1585
