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Is Shakespeare Dead?

CHAPTER XII--Irreverence
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One of the most trying defects which I find in these--these--what shall I call them?
for I will not apply injurious epithets to them, the way they do to us, such violations of courtesy being repugnant to my nature and my dignity.

The furthest I can go in that direction is to call them by names of limited reverence--names merely descriptive, never unkind, never offensive, never tainted by harsh feeling.

If _they_ would do like this, they would feel better in their hearts.

Very well, then--to proceed.
One of the most trying defects which I find in these Stratfordolaters, these Shakesperoids, these thugs, these bangalores, these troglodytes, these herumfrodites, these blatherskites, these buccaneers, these bandoleers, is their spirit of irreverence.

It is detectable in every utterance of theirs when they are talking about us.


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