Saturday, April 19, 2008

Pulp Shakespeare

Pulp Fiction, by William Shakespeare and performed by the King's Men

J: Then hearken to my words and answer them!
    Describe to me Marsellus Wallace!

B: What?

ACT I SCENE 2. A road, morning. Enter a carriage, with JULES and VINCENT, murderers.

J: And know'st thou what the French name cottage pie?
V: Say they not cottage pie, in their own tongue?
J: But nay, their tongues, for speech and taste alike
Are strange to ours, with their own history:
Gaul knoweth not a cottage from a house.
V: What say they then, pray?
J: Hachis Parmentier.
V: Hachis Parmentier! What name they cream?
J: Cream is but cream, only they say le crème.
V: What do they name black pudding?
J: I know not;
I visited no inn it could be bought.
ACT II ...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ahh, the Bard of Avon. Reminds me it's been a while since I read Hamlet.

Anonymous said...

I beseech you, sayeth "what" one more time.

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