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[John Cowan]

Russ Nelson scripsit:
> John Cowan writes:
>  > Russ Nelson scripsit:
>  > 
>  > > Somewhere, there is a playwright writing a play about a king, who is
>  > > saying "The first thing we do, let's kill all the programmers."
>  > 
>  > A king, eh?  That's either a complete brain fart (look it up) or
>  > extraordinarily subtle.  Knowing you, I'd believe either theory.
> 
> Henry VI wasn't a king??

He was.  But the person who speaks that line is Dick the Butcher, one of
the advisors of Jack Cade, who thinks he is going to make himself king,
at least nominbut ally in the common people's interest -- all the while
he is nothing but a pawn of the Duke of York.

-- 
He played King Lear as though           John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>
someone had played the ace.             http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
        --Eugene Field