"Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."
"Be quiet!"
"Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
"Shut up!"
"I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"
"Shut up, will you? Shut up!"
"Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system."
"Shut up!"
"Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
"Bloody peasant!"
Though, personally, I prefer the quotation from the Book of Armaments . . .
