-Caveat Lector- BILL CLINTON CONJURES (WITH) JUSTINIAN ====================================== (CNNS, 02/10/99) -- The Latin *coniuratio* (conspiracy, plot) yields to the French *conjuration* (conspiracy, exorcism) and bifurcates into the English pair: conspiracy/conjure. Bill Clinton has conjured up the Byzantine emperor Justinian. He seeks Justinian's advice. Together they conspire (breathe together). As Hillary Clinton conjures Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Clinton conjures Justinian. Bill Clinton, like Tiberius Caesar, finds he cannot sleep. In the dark hours of night, like Lincoln before him, he summons forth the departed -- someone to talk with. Let us listen to the talk between Bill Clinton and Justinian: JUSTINIAN: Who DARES summon the Immortal!? CLINTON: It is I, Bill Clinton, of Arkansas. JUSTINIAN: Puny man, knowest not thou to whomst thou speakest!? CLINTON: No. Not exactly. JUSTINIAN: It is =I=, the Illustrious; Justinian, Supreme Ruler of All Kingdoms, Terror of East and West. Kneel thou dog! Else thou shalt be thrown into the dungeons of Theodora! CLINTON: But I am Clinton, also a King. Many women kneel before me. JUSTINIAN: Comest thou under a flag of truce!? CLINTON: Yes. I come to parley. JUSTINIAN: Hast thou GOLD to offer!? CLINTON: No. I have, though, these Federal Reserve notes. [Places paper money on table.] JUSTINIAN: FOOL!!! What good be these silly parchments! They shall be burned, dog, together with thyself! CLINTON: I can offer much blood. Many are the innocents I have ordered killed. JUSTINIAN: (Considers.) Very well. Much blood is the provenance of kings. CLINTON: I seek advice, Oh Illustrious One. How best must I rule? JUSTINIAN: Thou begs for wisdom? CLINTON: Yes, Oh Illustrious One. JUSTINIAN: Then listen well. When I ascended to the throne, it took only a very little while for me to bring everything into confusion. Things hitherto forbidden by law were one by one brought into public life, while established customs were swept away. I quickly sought to invest myself with new forms of majesty by changing things to new forms. I did so not because justice required the upheaval, but only so everything might have a new look and be associated with my NAME. See thou not my cunning? CLINTON: Yes. The new forms all bore your name. JUSTINIAN: Of the forcible seizure of property and the murder of my subjects I was never sated. The Senators learned soon to fear the power of my arm. But the peasants, the backward rural folk, held to the old beliefs. So I sent out at once an army of officials. These officials forced everyone they met to renounce his ancestral beliefs. Yet in the eyes of country people such a suggestion was blasphemy; so they resolved one and all to stand their ground against the men who made this demand. CLINTON: Oh I can identify with that! These rural folks are dead-set against me! But I just had my buddies at Shell Oil do a never-ending commercial, about evil rednecks in old pick-up trucks. Ha, ha, ha! I made it like they were all predators, stalking defenseless women!! Ha-ha! JUSTINIAN: Silence, fool! Or you hear no more. CLINTON: Yes, Oh Illustrious One. JUSTINIAN: A religious cult, the Montanists, defied me. They were established in Phrygia. They (it is said) shut themselves up in their own churches and at once set these buildings on fire. CLINTON: Oh, wow! I mean, WOW! That is just like what happened with me! Down in Waco, Texas, the Branch Davidians (it is said) set their own church on fire. JUSTINIAN: Thou talkest much. The rural folk continued to defy me. The peasants, at a mass meeting, resolved as one man to take up arms against the Emperor. They joined battle with the soldiers and held out for some time. But in the end, they lost the fight and were cut to pieces. At last, to avoid being caught, every man was glad to exchange his homeland for another country, as if his own had fallen into enemy hands. CLINTON: Not here, where I am King! Here we've got a big "Dump Here" sign, given us like a Trojan Horse, by the French, a cunning strategy they.... JUSTINIAN: "French"? I know not the name. CLINTON: Uh, Gaul, in your time. Yeah, they gave us this "gift", a Trojan Horse it was. They called it the Statue of Liberty! It was like a big neon sign to the world: "Dump Excess Here." But our people aren't accepted by them, those other nations, if they want to get out of this country. So we just build lots of dungeons (you'd call them) and that's where =we= dump =our= excess. So it's not like in your time. No one now can flee. JUSTINIAN: Thou art a prattler and a chatterer. Thou art a child in the sinister ways of power. Depart, foolish one. Thou canst nay be the power. I look for the true power in thy kingdom. CLINTON: Oh, you mean Hillary? Will you talk with her sometime? JUSTINIAN: Conjure again, and mayhaps Theodora will speak with thy woman. 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