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   Martin Wisse

   zaterdag 7 juli 2007

   2001 just called. It wants its catchphrase back:

   Pray silence, gentles all,
   And attend the traffic of our stage!
   Would that we were privileged such
   To stand stout-hearted upon the bridge
   At the side of good Captain, who
   showed no fear, even when fire
   And puissance did its fell ravages
   Upon his vessel and his hardy crew!
   And would that we were to see
   Upon the vision-screen, apparating,
   The brutal visage of that foul fiend, CATS.
   But pardon, gentles all,
   That we poor players can but provide
   Only the merest shadow of the history
   Upon this splint’ry scaffold.
   Nonetheless, I pray you,
   Give o’er your imaginations to our arts,
   And join us as we set our scene:
   In the year of Our Lord, two thousand one hundred one,
   As a most terrible war doth commence…