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Re: Halo Hamlet
Posted By: The More Deluded <TheAmazingOliAndHisEducatedRodents@orange.net>Date: 12/7/06 3:21 p.m.

In Response To: Halo Hamlet (Jordan117)

: This board is far too clogged with commercial speculation, so here's
: something completely different...

: The other day in English class we had an interesting creative writing
: assignment. Basically, we had to take the famous "To be or not to
: be" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet and modify it so it talked
: about another subject. Some chose their pets, some chose sports. I chose
: Halo -- on Xbox Live, to be specific. Where Hamlet ruminated on why people
: choose to live life in the face of tremendous suffering, this asks the
: more important question: why play Xbox Live when so many people on it are
: jerks and assholes?

: Anyway, here it is in all its lyrical glory: * * *

: To play or not to play? That is the question.
: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
: The superjumps and standbys of outrageous cheaters,
: Or to take arms against a sea of mods,
: And by quitting end them? To quit, to play,
: No more. And by quitting we end
: The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
: That Live is heir to, 'tis a consummation
: Devoutly to be wished. To quit, to stop,
: To never play again -- yes, there's the catch.
: For in that span of time what boredom comes
: When we have switched off this “mere game”,
: Must give us pause -- there's the need
: That makes a necessity of so long a session;
: For who would bear the whips and scorns of Slayer,
: The oppressor's cheats, the proud man's teabagging,
: The pangs of unrequited Friend Requests, the Banhammer’s delay,
: The insolence of tweens and the spurns
: That patient sportmanship of the spoilsports takes,
: When he himself might his endgame make
: With the “off” button? Who would campers bear,
: To grunt and sweat under a weary LAN,
: But that the dread of something after Halo,
: The undiscovered Life from whose land
: No traveller returns, puzzles the will
: And makes us rather bear those ills we have
: Than fly to others that we know not of?
: Thus ennui does make players of us all;
: And thus the native hue of responsibility
: Is sicklied over with the pale cast of the television,
: And enterprises of great pith and moment
: With this regard their currents turn awry,
: And lose the name of action. Soft you now!
: The fair Shishka! Nymph, in thy sarcasm
: Be all my words remembered.

: * * *

: Here is the original, for reference. Hope ya'll liked it... ^_^

thats really funny!

keep writin them hits kid! ;)


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Replies:

Halo HamletJordan117 12/7/06 3:04 p.m.
     Re: Halo HamletThe More Deluded 12/7/06 3:21 p.m.
     Re: Halo HamletCress77 12/7/06 3:24 p.m.
     Front page!Jordan117 12/7/06 3:26 p.m.
     Awesome! *NM*Eastbeast314 12/7/06 3:39 p.m.
     Re: Halo HamletSIRBOE 12/7/06 3:48 p.m.
     Re: Halo HamletSpec_Ops_Assault 12/7/06 4:56 p.m.
     In Reply to your EloquenceAngelicLionheart 12/7/06 4:57 p.m.
     Awesome! Love it! *NM*Omniscient 12/7/06 5:03 p.m.
     Brilliant! *NM*Guesty-Persony-Thingy 12/7/06 5:06 p.m.
     Re: Excellent!Sep7imus [subnova] 12/7/06 5:06 p.m.
           XD *NM*Jordan117 12/7/06 5:13 p.m.
     Well done! ....like a glove!3Suns 12/7/06 5:35 p.m.
     Move over Shakespere!IceWeasel 12/7/06 5:59 p.m.
     Excellent *NM*raptor117 12/7/06 6:15 p.m.
     Re: Halo HamletShishka 12/7/06 7:21 p.m.
           Definitions...Jordan117 12/7/06 8:16 p.m.
     Re: Halo HamletMonochron 12/7/06 9:33 p.m.
     Re: Halo Hamlettaylor_ 12/7/06 11:34 p.m.
     But seriously...doober187 12/8/06 1:26 a.m.
           Re: But seriously...Jordan117 12/8/06 2:11 a.m.
                 Re: But seriously...(Halo:Hamlet-Jordan117)doober187 1/22/07 1:08 a.m.
                       Re: But seriously...(Halo:Hamlet-Jordan117)Jordan117 1/22/07 2:53 a.m.
                             Re: But seriously...(Halo:Hamlet-Jordan117)doober187 1/22/07 3:55 a.m.
     Nice. Anyone for cyborg verse?Rockslider 12/8/06 4:07 p.m.
     Nice job.Barcode711 12/8/06 9:01 p.m.
     Har Har, similar project.DanteThePoet 1/22/07 3:12 a.m.



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