Shakespeare Anagram: Richard II
From Richard II:
Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be;
Therefore no no, for I resign to thee.
Now mark me how I will undo myself:
I give this heavy weight from off my head,
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;
With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
With mine own hands I give away my crown,
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
With mine own breath release all duteous rites:
All pomp and majesty I do forswear;
My manors, rents, revenues, I forego;
My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:
God pardon all oaths that are broke to me!
God keep all vows unbroke are made to thee!
Make me, that nothing have, with nothing griev’d,
And thou with all pleas’d, that hast all achiev’d!
Shift around the letters, and it becomes:
Sarah Palin idly leaving as Governor of newly-widowed green Alaska for no apparent reason makes little sense. If she runs for President, it won’t win votes, and this tough woman has more ambition than that.
What was the real reason? To save face over impending ethics idiocy? Did an enemy’s muddy-eyed blackmail jimmy her out? Do the kids want their mommy more? Or was she moved over the Letterman thing more than it seemed? Why would a “my way or the highway” leader modify to go for the highway?
My augury: maybe we will find her the host of a hip new talk show on that right-wing cable news network. Running a state must be a dull toy compared to the fame and fortune of television.
July 5th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Hi — could you please check your RSS stream? You seem to be publishing spam in your RSS stream (although your blog itself is pristine).
July 9th, 2009 at 6:51 am
This one’s pretty amazing!
July 9th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Thanks, Asher!
I’m not sure what’s going on with the spam. The RSS stream seems fine, but my Google Reader subscribers are seeing only spam. Let me see what I can find out.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Clever, clever.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Hey, you’re a great anagrammatist! Do you know about the Anagrammy Awards? You should come post some of your work on the Anagrammy Forum (www.anagrammy.com/forum). It’s a fun community of fellow anagrammatists, and we often do long ones like this one of yours. Some of our members have a particular liking for Shakespeare Sonnets. See, for example, http://www.anagrammy.com/literary/mkeith/poems-dom18.html, http://www.anagrammy.com/literary/mkraus/poems-mk25.html. There are more scattered about in the Literary Archives (http://www.anagrammy.com/literary/index.html). We have competitions each month with Anagrammy Awards being offered in several categories. You’d surely be a fine competitor.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Welcome, Rosie!
It’s nice to be recognized by the anagram masters. I am aware of your site, and actually your Hallmarks of a Good Anagram page was very helpful in guiding my anagrams. I had considered submitting my sonnet anagram, but I wasn’t sure if it was okay to both publish the anagram here and submit it to your competition.
But you’ve got some amazing stuff over there, and I really should stop in more often. Thanks for stopping in here.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
“To be, or not to be, that is the Queftion:
Whether ’tis nobler in the minde to fuffer
The Slings and Arrowes of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms againft a Sea of troubles…”
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First to witness a monotonous ‘s’, then a glorious elaborate ‘f’!
At first, I thought the rule is ‘f’ before ‘t’…
No, there are ‘f’ bookends before and after ‘u’.
What a tormenting quote!