Saturday, 25 January 2014

Such stuff as dreams are made of…

Years ago Rev. Lanzarotte invested all the church funds of St. Scruples (C-of-E) in a high interest speculation which offered a massive rate of return. In the early years he eagerly watched the funds grow, offering dreams of repairing the church roof, landscaping the subsiding graveyard and taking the local wrinklies on day-trips to Bournemouth. However just when he planned to withdraw the money, the Bernie Madoff scandal broke. Suddenly there was no money left in the church funds. Ever since he has pedantically reminded those who misquote Prospero in The Tempest that Shakespeare was no friend of the swindling financier and would not have written about the dreams of Madoff. 

‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on.’

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