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"Mistris Birdlime — Had it not been for a friend in a corner. – Takes Aqua-vitae. – I had kickt up my heels."
Thomas Dekker, Westward Hoe, Act II, Scene 2, 1607 [no honest woman would run hurrying up & down thus.]

Lady Gaga — Bloody Mary 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fN5nKPprHk

"Orlando — But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!" 
William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene 2. [Takemura sabotaged communications.]

Wakako: Well said, V. Eddies are on their way.

"For my selfe, I recounte it on soveragne poynte of my feylicitye in genere and sum particular contentement 
of mynde that I have sutch an odd frende in a corner, so honest an yuthe in the city, so trew a gallant in the courte, 
so toward a lawier, and so witty a gentleman, that both can sufficiently for his rare pregnancy in conceyte—"
Gabriel Harvey, Letter-Book, 1579, p. 80.

V performs Arasaka's plan for world control since their fiction of Johnny Silverhand delineates clever levers. 
Arasaka appointee Rogue pushed son Panam Palmer, drug & Soviet weapons smuggler & Nomad mobilizer.