Charles Dickens tells Babylon 5
General Disclaimer: All characters belong to JMS, and the quote belongs to Charles Dickens from "A Tale from Two Cities".
Author's Note: Unlike 99.9% of my stories, this is not morbid, but rather uplifting (or at least compared to everything else I write!). Please enjoy!
And so it begins . . .
"President Clark signed a decree today declaring martial law," G'Kar, nauseaus with pity for his human friends, ignored the ISN broadcast. Why had he been watching it? He found the book he had been reading and turned back to the first page and recalled why. He read aloud:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness-"
"Is that . . .Shakespeare?" Vir questioned interrupting G'Kar's reading.
"No. Dickens. A wonderful writer. You know of Shakespeare, Vir?"
"Actually . .no. I just know he's a famous Earth author. But-"
The Narn chuckled. "Read him. He wrote Julius Caesar, an ancient Roman tale of betrayal and the fall of a great empire! Julius's own people, his most trustworthy friends, had killed him. And the very man, Brutus, had to clean up the mess."
That reminded Vir of Londo's predicament, for he himself had killed Cartagia!
"-That some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of compassion only."
General Disclaimer: All characters belong to JMS, and the quote belongs to Charles Dickens from "A Tale from Two Cities".
Author's Note: Unlike 99.9% of my stories, this is not morbid, but rather uplifting (or at least compared to everything else I write!). Please enjoy!
And so it begins . . .
"President Clark signed a decree today declaring martial law," G'Kar, nauseaus with pity for his human friends, ignored the ISN broadcast. Why had he been watching it? He found the book he had been reading and turned back to the first page and recalled why. He read aloud:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness-"
"Is that . . .Shakespeare?" Vir questioned interrupting G'Kar's reading.
"No. Dickens. A wonderful writer. You know of Shakespeare, Vir?"
"Actually . .no. I just know he's a famous Earth author. But-"
The Narn chuckled. "Read him. He wrote Julius Caesar, an ancient Roman tale of betrayal and the fall of a great empire! Julius's own people, his most trustworthy friends, had killed him. And the very man, Brutus, had to clean up the mess."
That reminded Vir of Londo's predicament, for he himself had killed Cartagia!
"-That some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of compassion only."
