Yeah, there's a curious amount of talking around the actual killing part. Possibly because it was horrible, and he doesn't really feel it helps his defense any to get into that.
However, my favorite bit of the speech, comedy-wise, comes from the editorial note when an ellipses is put in because something was probably missing. Because I love the implications of it actually being written as is without that expected omission. "After that, four or five days passed. As I will now demonstrate with the GREATEST PROOF."
...what's weirder to me than anything else, though? Realizing, as I go through this speech, that a lot of the weirder and less practical vocab my textbook gave me must have been aimed at this specific speech, since it's so often vocab coming up in the speech that I wouldn't expect to be all that useful for general reading. (I mean, the very first vocab list that book gave us included the stone/vote word. It is not easy to write a sample sentence with that vocab, I tell you.)
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However, my favorite bit of the speech, comedy-wise, comes from the editorial note when an ellipses is put in because something was probably missing. Because I love the implications of it actually being written as is without that expected omission. "After that, four or five days passed. As I will now demonstrate with the GREATEST PROOF."
...what's weirder to me than anything else, though? Realizing, as I go through this speech, that a lot of the weirder and less practical vocab my textbook gave me must have been aimed at this specific speech, since it's so often vocab coming up in the speech that I wouldn't expect to be all that useful for general reading. (I mean, the very first vocab list that book gave us included the stone/vote word. It is not easy to write a sample sentence with that vocab, I tell you.)