June 3, 2005
Meanwhile in Britain…
Never mind that Iraq and the European Union are imploding, or that the U.K. came third from last in the Eurovision Song Contest. According to the London Times, there are bigger issues at stake in the land that time forgot:
Any fool knows that Bacon wrote Shakespeare. Any Looney, you could say, for that was the name of a proto anti-Stratfordian. So it is mischievous of Dominic Dromgoole, the incoming artistic director of the Globe Theatre, to call a Looney a loony. For the present artistic director, Mark Rylance, is a Baconian. He has written the foreword to The Shakespeare Enigma, which argues that “Shakespeare” was written by Bacon with his team of scribes. The texts were then handed to an obscure luvvie playing bit parts for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. And Shakespeare passed them off as his own. The rest is legend.
This is obvious to conspiracy theorists. How could the son of a provincial glover have acquired the Oxbridge learning, international polish and knowledge of the court shown in the plays? Bacon was the most brilliant intellectual and courtier of the age.
Someone has clearly eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner.
Oh, and for those unfamiliar with the term, a “luvvie” is anyone in the acting profession. It’s not a compliment.
And in other U.K news:
Two women and a man have been found guilty of torturing an eight-year-old who was attacked and threatened with death for being a “witch”.
The girl was cut with a knife, beaten with a belt and shoe and had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes to beat the devil out of her.
And, in a final cruel twist, she was put into a zip-up laundry bag and told she would be “thrown away” into a river, the Old Bailey heard.
It’s not known as the Old World for nothing.
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