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Superstitious theater folk call it "the Scottish play." For them, merely to speak its name is to invite worse agonies than any conjured from eye of newt and toe of frog. More rational observers, too, view Macbeth as fraught with difficulties. Its plot cannot work unless skeptical modern audiences will believe in witches and the supernatural. The central couple kill in unforeshadowed haste and repent in wearisome leisure. As a tyrant, Macbeth seems a paranoiac cross between Herod, slaughtering a legion of innocents to be sure he got the right one, and the pathetic people who kill entire families...
...joke, a scorpion comes to a creek and asks a frog to carry him across it, because scorpions can't swim...
...frog says, "Why, you'd sting...
...Well, that made sense to the frog so he said, 'get on,' and started ferry him across and in midstream the scoprion stung him," the president said...
...both were dying, the frog asked the scorpion, "Why did you do that--now we're both going...