A Million Shakespeares

About the Book

FIRST STATEMENT TO THE AUDIENCE

I stand naked in front of you.

I can't lie to you for one second.

This is my story you will see.

I see it as one of redemption, Justice.

But how you will see it,

my thousand eyes transfixing this darkness,

I do not know, and I cannot say.

I only know that you have entered it, my story.

You will feel it in my blood as I feel it.

I do not accept that any distance can exist between us.

Not any distance in space.

Not any distance in culture.

Not any distance in time.

Not any distance in language.

Not in blood. Not in hope.

You are me, in this.

Who you will be afterward even you do not know.

I stand naked in front of you.

I can't lie to you for one second.

Oh, my thousand eyes,

my thousand eyes

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About the Author

Everything not incidental

To a prince's birth in loathed ashes

Shall be told in what we are about to speak:

Mire costuming here a spirit as rare

As any that went naked in greater ages

Whose philosophers, incidents, and strange tales

Whisper still in books passed down to us.