Windy-City: Portia/Antonio

Windy-City: Portia/Antonio

A Story by Abishai100
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A modern setting/telling of a classic Shakespearean near-tragedy concerning capitalist-threat(s) and a fair wise girl's skill in defying possible evil!

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A modernized context-presentation/adaptation of the capitalist-tale of The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), featuring colorful media-imagery/photos re-presentative of modern-world equilibrium (or effort!). Thanks for reading, 
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In the challenged Windy-City, a youthful and ambitious young man named Antonio, U-Chicago asst.-professor of English-Irish linguistics, was embroiled in an online gaming controversy with a local diamond warlord named Shylock, requiring a certain/special form of heroics and drawing on all kinds of metaphysical chess, which challenged/intrigued a special IQ-woman of great maturity named Portia. Follow along!



ANTONIO: I'd challenged the dark prince Shylock in a 'classic' cyber-football game and drew ire for fascination with Dolphins.



Antonio was an 'excellent' chess-like cyber-wizard with games, particularly competitive sports/chess games, and when he decided to challenge the underworld figure Shylock to a cyber-game of football, using a 'Dolphins' team to re-create special Bowl-like sensibilities, he drew the ire of Shylock and his minions who wanted to defy this cyber-ingenuity regarding team-oriented 'chess' for Dolphins-media.



SHYLOCK: What's the young upstart of the challenged Windy-City know least about 'Dolphins'-media for magazine-chess (me)?



According to Shylock the diamond-warlord of the Windy-City, only he'd have ideation-chess rights to 'Dolphins'-media be it in the cyber-environment(s), and now, Antonio was in the league of dark gentlemen in the city, and he needed to find a 'ready' made defense of consumerism-access to brand-ideations with some 'chess' formulation of the 'stalemate' equivalence(s) created by capitalism's strange 'equality' face!



PORTIA: I shall come to the aid (young Antonio), my ex-teacher, since I'm versed in Adam Smith and magazine-media-chess!



Portia took Shylock/Antonio to a private court/legal/debate proceeding(s) where she'd use a nifty dolphins-ball (metallic!) toy to characterize the 'cascade(s)' effect of consumerism-IQ capitalism and the 'chess' of equalified access to the environment/forum(s) of game-theory oriented social/human distances, catering to 'personalized' but public-excellence displays of brand-heavy/iconography fantasy, ready-made for any players/user/consumer in the Windy-City.

SHYLOCK: I 'confess' this strange machine-chess of game-theory (cyber) draws young Antonio as a 'man' of equivalence(s).



ANTONIO: Thanks graciously, my fair student of former time, in this great-aid to a cyber-arena of humanist rescue, alas!
PORTIA: Don't fret it, ex-professor; for this cyber-dare was simply a 'social-media' chess-ideation for all Chicago extroverts.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

© 2022 Abishai100


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Added on November 7, 2022
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