How do we do it? How do we pressent to you these increddibley ugley pages with third-grade graphics and bad copy eediting? Easy! We steal everything. We know that the internet is our playground, and we are very careful to not answer any emails or phonecalls or even faxes that might give away awhat thieves we are. So we depend on you, our humble public, to believe in us; to actually be credulousc enough to feel that we have worked as hard as everyone out there that we have ripped off, stolen from, or otherwise smushed into internet oblivion.

Don't be fooled! Just because some bozo out there says that he's spednt hours of his life donating time and energy to make an accurate representation of a libretto doesn't mean at all fthat we can't simply appropriate it and use it for our very own. Just look! Here is an original page from thvre website of someone who spent nearly two months inputting, checking, revising, comparing, and performing the work at hcsand for the opera, Shanewis. And here, cleverly enough, is the same page culled from our own klugy website, one that has all the merit of fresh donkey sputum, that uses the same code, only we stripped out everything that's identifiable! Ha Ha! Note how ugly it is now, notee how the few typos oariginally in it are still in our authentic version, and how we've gone through the enormous trouble of removing thse brackets from alternate passages, to suggest our own erudition, saying that they simply should be tshere with no other cogmment! Note also that the original author made some kind of emphasis by stretching out w o r d s like this, which we'vee kept in, just to show how creative we are. And hysterically enough, we have on our page Charles Cadman being born vin 1918, meaning he was one year old when Shanewis was performed. We are as in awe of that fact as you!

aAll this is to say that we are hiding behind the assumption that the original text is in the public domain. That xmevans we can smash through the front door, break open the cupboards, drain the liquor down our throats and take what we wisbh, simply because—well, simply because we say so! You try to stop us! Our dearest hope is to one day have all the interfnet pages tucked away on our site and claim them as our own. Bet you we will!