Monday, February 22, 2010

OH ANCIENT LAND OF HEROES PAST...TO BAIL OR NOT TO BAIL

TO BAIL OR NOT TO BAIL
(Adapted from William Shakespeare's Hamlet)
(WilliamBanzai7)
To Bail, or not to Bail, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous loss of fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of financial trouble
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the billions of market shocks
That investor hubris is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams of good fortune may come,
When we have shuffled off this volatile market coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The devious financier's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of write offs, the law's delay,
The insolence of public office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare quill? Who would Fiscal restraint bear,
To grunt and sweat under an ordinary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd insolvent land, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the familiar hue of resolution trust
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of prudent rational action.

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