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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Reminisce: Black Monday October 19, 1987-2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)59. Macbeth Act 4, scene 1, 44–49
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. [Knocking]
Open locks,
Whoever knocks!
After conjuring up "double, double toil and trouble", the three witches admit a visitor to their caveKing Macbeth of Scotland. "Something wicked this way comes," indeed, and they're delighted. Macbethat least, the wicked Macbethis in part their own creation. The first time around, they came looking for him, to deliver the enticing prophecy that set off the whole chain of events which has included Macbeth's regicide and subsequent bloody events. Now, Macbeth comes looking for them, and the witches summon apparitions to tell Macbeth exactly what he wants to hear: that he's invulnerable. This news is purposely ambiguous; it is calculated only to make Macbeth act more wickedly before he is finally finished off.
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/by-pricking-my-thumbs
This is precisely the point in time we have reached...for the 1%, it's all downhill from here. There is no force to sustain the inequity, no natural power to draw upon. That which cannot continue, will not.
I have a shiver down my back this weekend, and it's not just the weather. It's the anguished truth pouring through the posts these days. The blinders are off, the BS is washing away, dare I say it: The End Is Near.
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