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Thread #13821   Message #116442
Posted By: Jerry Friedman
22-Sep-99 - 11:27 AM
Thread Name: Senate Czars-committee on culture,scary!
Subject: RE: Senate Czars-committee on culture,scary!
Kathy, "sound and fury" is from Shakespeare, not the Bible. Specifically, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5:

SEYTON

The queen, my lord, is dead.

MACBETH

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.