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Instead of reading the will immediately, however, he focuses the crowd's attention on Caesar's body, pointing out his wounds and stressing the conspirators' betrayal of a man who trusted them, in particular the betrayal of Brutus ("Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!"). The crowd, increasingly agitated, calls the conspirators "traitors" and demands that Antony read out the will. Antony tells the crowd to "have patience" and expresses his feeling that he will "wrong the honourable men / Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar" if he is to read the will. As he does this, the crowd begins to turn against the conspirators.Īntony then teases the crowd with Caesar's will, which they beg him to read, but he refuses. He denies that Caesar wanted to make himself king, for there were many who witnessed the latter's denying the crown three times.Īs Antony reflects on Caesar's death and the injustice that nobody will be blamed for it, he becomes overwhelmed with emotion and deliberately pauses ("My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it come back to me"). He begins by carefully rebutting the notion that his friend, Caesar, deserved to die because he was ambitious, instead claiming that his actions were for the good of the Roman people, whom he cared for deeply ("When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff"). Throughout his speech, Antony calls the conspirators "honourable men" – his implied sarcasm becoming increasingly obvious. Which if you read last week’s “He’s breathing my air”, you’ll see I already know a whole lot about.Antony has been allowed by Brutus and the other conspirators to make a funeral oration for Caesar on condition that he will not blame them for Caesar's death however, while Antony's speech outwardly begins by justifying the actions of Brutus and the assassins ("I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"), Antony uses rhetoric and genuine reminders to ultimately portray Caesar in such a positive light that the crowd is enraged against the conspirators. (There’s some moral here, about sharing, you see. (They were starving peasants, remember.) So he gets a big pot of water boiling and all his neighbors start throwing stuff in: a few potatoes, turnips, and suchlike peasant stuff.
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That’s the one where the starving peasant suggests making soup of of stones because that’s the only thing he’s got. In fact, making Corn Salad is kind of like that old fable about “Stone Soup”. As I mentioned, there isn’t really a recipe it’s more of a method. I honestly don’t mind having a few leftover ears, since I can make Corn Salad. Here’s an actual text exchange from a couple of summers ago:īut that’s okay. Even my personal Child has not inherited the Corn Gene. There are Whitmores who have graced my table and refused an ear of corn. But that’s a story for another timeīut Dude Man is the exception rather than the rule, corn-wise. Whitmores have their own crazy food craving: bread. “What do you want to be when you grow up?”.Remembering Dad and the Sir Launch-A-Lot.If at first you don’t succeed, pretend you’re a squirrel.