When the
#InternationalMafiaFund
#IMF Comes to Collect its
#Pizzo or Pound of Flesh
#DoNotPay.
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Otto von Bismarck: “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.”
Shylock:
Most learnèd judge, a sentence! Come prepare!
Portia:
Tarry a little, there is something else.
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
The words expressly are "a pound of flesh."
The Merchant Of Venice Act 4, scene 1, 304–307
https://www.thoughtco.com/top-shylock...
"A pound of flesh" is a figurative way of referring to a harsh demand or spiteful penalty—the consequences of defaulting on a desperate bargain.
But the usurer Shylock demands a literal pound of flesh as security when the merchant Antonio comes to borrow money for a friend.
But while Antonio is ultimately forced to default, and while Shylock refuses the merchant's pleas for mercy, the usurer is foiled in the end.
Dressed as an eminent judge, Antonio's indirect beneficiary Portia takes Shylock's insistence on the letter of the bond to its absurd conclusion.
The bond specified only a pound of flesh, she maintains, but "no jot of blood."
Shylock may be demonic but he can't perform miracles; Portia's clever piece of legal hairsplitting carries the day.
https://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-qu...
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