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Necessity was construed in many
ways since the ancient Greeks,

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pre-Greeks was a deity.

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Of course, to think
of it as in relation

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to the family of invention,
virtue, and so on.

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But it's also part of
the family of justice.

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And it's one of the
family conflicts

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that's worked out in this book
between necessity and justice.

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And I'll read a few poems
from this book and then pause.

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But since it is
Shakespeare's birthday,

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I thought I'd just quote a few
lines of Shakespeare's that

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uses the word necessity
in terms with which I

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feel a great affinity.

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And it's from Richard II who
after he has been deposed

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says to his wife,
learn, good soul.

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To think our former
state a happy dream.

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From which awaked the truth of
what we are shows us, but this.

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I am sworn brother, sweet,
to grim necessity.

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And he and I will keep
a league till death.

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Face to face.

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The sky too fell upon itself
and hid behind the point

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where everything takes on
the sheen of disbelief.

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Justice shivered in his mask.

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The residue of innocence
would speak if it had words.

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It would be cry out
once more for what name.

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What is it seen
there at the origin?

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