Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The Rene says, "Beware the ides of March."

Everyone knows where this saying comes from, right? The assassination of Julius Caesar shaped modern existence in probably more ways than you realize. But how many people know the truth behind the matter, the story behind the stories?

This saying is presented in the vein of a Shakespearean play, minus the iambic pentameter, to allow more familiarity with the subject material. I've spent the last two months in rigorous scholarship researching what really happened and I have written it as accurately as I could. I give you, "Kalends."

N.B.: unintended secondary goal for this year, I'm shooting for emulating a different author per saying story. This time it was the Bard, last time Faulkner. Let's see where I'm going with this.\

UPDATE: 5/7/08
Fixed some formatting things from the result of uploading it to Googledocs from Word, added a few lines of dialogue for clarity and humor in the final scene and epilogue.

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