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The average English student can be seen sitting in class and taking notes as instructors make generalized statements about the historical context of the piecethey are lecturing about. The history students are often
using the time machine for their own personal game, going back into the past and giving sports results to their younger selves. They should be using it for mankind's good, like going back in time to assassinate
Francis Bacon. No one needs to hear that one person in the back of a class go on about how he might have been the author of several of Shakespeare's
ADVERTS FOR THE TELLIE. Which for somereason he refused to write in pentameter and instead opted for the BOLD CAPITOL LETTER ouvre of poetry to which eecummings revolted. Shakespeare was so
tired. Tired of the rhetoric, tired of the tedium, tired of having to be the Superman of the day so he laid back and gave the world's troubles to
the listening reporter. The interview went for days, months! And still the celestial scribe wrote on, recording it all for the final reckoning. Funny, I'd always imagined Judgment Day a bit more dramatic! But it's not all bells and whistles, I guess.
