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1 Shakespeare: {typing} Not marble, nor the gilded monuments/ Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rime;/ But you shall shine more bright in these contents/ Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
2 Mercutio: Don't quit your day job, Will!
2 Shakespeare: <sigh> I suppose you're right. {turns back to computer}
3 Shakespeare: {typing} The primary software component functionality interface utilises strategic high level drill-down performance offering methodologies.
4 Mercutio: {looking over his shoulder} Let's see that poem again...
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That's the opening of Shakespeare's Sonnet 55, which is a love poem with a bit of a twist. Shakespeare very cleverly made the underlying meaning of the poem an extended boast about what a great poet and writer he was, by using the device of comparing his beloved's beauty to the immortality of his own poetry.
Try getting away with that in your creative writing class.
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