"drink the wine and chew the wafer / two, four, six, eight / time to transubstantiate!"

It occurs to me that it would not be hard to rewrite the plot of The Vicomte of Bragelonne into a wuxia epic. It'd be a lot of work, because long-ass epic is long, but the structure and themes -- including the competing loyalties of the four musketeers after the passage of time -- translate very well.

---L.

Subject quote from "The Vatican Rag," Tom Lehrer.