“We’re more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school.

Well, we can do you blood
and love without the rhetoric,

and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the
love,

and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive.

 But we can’t give
you love and rhetoric without the blood.

Blood is compulsory. They’re all blood,
you see. ”
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ~ Tom Stoppard

 

You would think they were speaking of today… instead of Hamlet and his Denmark