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We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

To anyone who first figures out

(Easy)

1) What the following dialouge is referring to,
2) Who's point of view it is from, and

(Hard)

3) What it is a (loose) adaptation of.

(Writing a letter)
(Finishes, looks up)
Is this a gun which I see before me?
Ah, and here is the murderer, taking the gun!
But strange, he has no face…
Why should that be?
Should a faceless man have less consequence,
Living without repercussions from his acts?
Should he not suffer from any evil he may do,
Any atrocity he may commit in another’s name?
Ah, but the man can not see me.
I reach out to touch him, and he is not there.
What informer is correct?
Do my eyes lie, or my hands?
Both can not be telling me truth.
But the gun! It has turned red!
Red with the life of my President,
Who shall soon be no more,
Leaving me to inherit his office.
Why, though, should this false vision present itself to me,
When I am not the one who shall pull the trigger?
Alas, but the murder is still on my head,
For it is still I who sends the bullet on it’s way.
This murderer is simply another type of weapon,
Wielded through money and words.
This letter I hold must therefore be a gun,
For it shall kill a man.
(puts letter in envelope)
It is done.
The letter is sealed,
As is Kennedy’s fate.
Why must my breath be so loud,
As if it fears it shall soon be lost?
I should not fret to lose it,
For I will soon take another’s.
I must go.
My bullet must be sent,
So that it may find it’s mark.
(exits)


[Edited on 2/3/2005 3:20:34 PM]

  • 02.03.2005 3:20 PM PDT
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can i have a clue

  • 02.03.2005 3:22 PM PDT
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1) Voting
2) Perspective of the voter?
3) I dunno.

Best guesses. But if they're right, you may very well be violating the no politics rule. Questionable though.

[Edited on 2/3/2005 3:26:02 PM]

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3 Hamlet

  • 02.03.2005 3:33 PM PDT
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I thought it might be that. But meh.

  • 02.03.2005 3:37 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: Slayd722
1) Voting
2) Perspective of the voter?
3) I dunno.

Best guesses. But if they're right, you may very well be violating the no politics rule. Questionable though.

Shoot, you might be right. It's not historically correct, but it does involve politics. Not voting, though.

  • 02.03.2005 4:26 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Gack, double post and forum weirdness.

[Edited on 2/3/2005 4:32:54 PM]

  • 02.03.2005 4:28 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: Douglas Brown
3 Hamlet

Nope. I will say that so far people have come close on all three, though.

  • 02.03.2005 4:29 PM PDT
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3 Heart of Darkness

  • 02.03.2005 4:32 PM PDT
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Sounds like the vice president is hiring a hitman to kill kennedy.

That would be my point-of-view and context guesses.

[Edited on 2/3/2005 4:34:14 PM]

  • 02.03.2005 4:33 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: Douglas Brown
3 Heart of Darkness

Still no.
Think; it involves one person killing another in order to gain the dead man's office. As in job.

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The United States of America-- STILL more rights than North Korea!
--New official U.S. motto.

Cronin's Law----The New Flood Drinking Game

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Posted by: Douglas Brown
3 Heart of Darkness

Still no.
Think; it involves one person killing another in order to gain the dead man's office. As in job.


Read my post god dammit!

  • 02.03.2005 4:35 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: Texas Ben
Sounds like the vice president is hiring a hitman to kill kennedy.

Ah, two cookies to Texas Ben! I'll fax them to you shortly.

This was the political part (oops), and is in no way accurate. It just worked well for the adaptation I was doing.

  • 02.03.2005 4:35 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: Texas Ben
Posted by: un gato
Posted by: Douglas Brown
3 Heart of Darkness

Still no.
Think; it involves one person killing another in order to gain the dead man's office. As in job.


Read my post god dammit!

I meant for number three. You had no comment on that one.

Calm down Ben, calm down. Good boy.
*feeds Ben a cookie*

  • 02.03.2005 4:36 PM PDT
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The United States of America-- STILL more rights than North Korea!
--New official U.S. motto.

Cronin's Law----The New Flood Drinking Game

Posted by: un gato
Posted by: Texas Ben
Sounds like the vice president is hiring a hitman to kill kennedy.

Ah, two cookies to Texas Ben! I'll fax them to you shortly.

This was the political part (oops), and is in no way accurate. It just worked well for the adaptation I was doing.


Good. With that down, I'll venture a guess that it is an adaptation of an excerpt from Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar, because the situation is about the same.

More cookies please.

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The United States of America-- STILL more rights than North Korea!
--New official U.S. motto.

Cronin's Law----The New Flood Drinking Game

Posted by: un gato

I meant for number three. You had no comment on that one.

Calm down Ben, calm down. Good boy.
*feeds Ben a cookie*


Read my other post god dammit!

  • 02.03.2005 4:37 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: Texas Ben
Posted by: un gato

I meant for number three. You had no comment on that one.

Calm down Ben, calm down. Good boy.
*feeds Ben a cookie*


Read my other post god dammit!

Lol. Wrong.
Apparently all of Shakespeare's plays are very similiar. Yes, that was a hint.

  • 02.03.2005 4:41 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

1) Kennedy assassination
2) vice president
3) Macbeth

It looked like people gave up, so here are the answers.

  • 02.03.2005 6:47 PM PDT