February 2010
12 posts
inthefade:
Clutch - I Have the Body of John...
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He totally blew as a negotiator.
"After some delay Booth said, 'For whom do you take me?'
"I replied, 'It doesn't make any difference. Come out.'
"He said, 'I am a cripple and alone.'
"I said, 'I know who is with you, and you had better surrender.'
"He replied, 'I may be taken by my friends, but not by my foes.'
"I said, 'If you don't come out, I'll burn the building.' I directed a corporal to pile up some hay in a crack in the wall of the barn and set the building on fire.
"As the corporal was picking up the hay and brush Booth said, 'If you come back here I will put a bullet through you.'
"I then motioned to the corporal to desist, and decided to wait for daylight and then to enter the barn by both doors and over power the assassins.
"Booth then said in a drawling voice. 'Oh Captain! There is a man here who wants to surrender awful bad.'
"I replied, 'You had better follow his example and come out.'
"His answer was, 'No, I have not made up my mind; but draw your men up fifty paces off and give me a chance for my life.'
"I told him I had not come to fight; that I had fifty men, and could take him.
"Then he said, 'Well, my brave boys, prepare me a stretcher, and place another stain on our glorious banner.'
September 2009
11 posts
In which our heroine remembers she's supposed to...
gatsbylives:
Oh damn. Dress rehearsal invite! Gotta jet NOW, lovelies.
Oh, and don’t worry, Old Sports. It won’t be the first time I’ve been to the theater “not exactly sober.”
(Please see The Great Kenneth Branagh “Hamlet” production of 1992 @ The Barbican in London and the great Kevin Spacey “Moon for the Misbegotten” production of 2005 at the Old Vic in London for reference.)
Whoa. London,...
“The underlying motive that caused the Southern leadership and men like John...”
– Edward Steers, Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
emilyelisabeth:
The Ballad of Booth from Assassins...
“One of John Wilkes Booth’s many faults is that he did not have the decency...”
– Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation
June 2009
9 posts
“After being hunted like a dog through swamps, woods, and last night being chased...”
– -John Wilkes Booth, Last diary entry.
Wahhh wahhhh wahhhh, I just shot Lincoln and now I’m going to bitch and moan in my diary like a pansy-ass little kid because I’m an ASSHOLE.
