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Nicol Williamson's DRAGON meets Antonio Gramsci, Jaron Lanier, DISNEY and Jury Nullification

Below is a picture of the great British actor, Nicol Williamson, as MERLIN, the leftover Druid wizard, in the Arthurian film, EXCALIBUR. He is an important figure in this matrix of entropy, for he could recognize the Dragon. He was so great that Nobel Laureates for Literature, playwrights Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter thought he was the world’s greatest living actor, as did literary legend, John Osborne.   This Blogger was dating a British girl, from a fallen aristocratic money; oh, they still had wealth, but had fallen from fun. They only knew decadence; they had forgotten the joy of wiggling one’s toes; and the benefit of not being stalked by raptors, or saber tooth tigers or piranha.   She inveigled this Blogger to see Williamson as HAMLET on Broadway; it was the greatest performance this Blogger had ever seen, and remains so to this day.    She was privy to British gossip; how Williamson and    gorgeous Helen Mirren had had a tempestuous affair while appearing on stage in MACBET