Cof L49, p75 hc: "No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow"

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Janos:
 
> [...] the couplet turns
> out to be taken from a pornographic version in the Vatican Library,
> unknown to Bortz the Scholar before 1961, but that is _not_ the
> edition Driblette used. So Driblette learned about the couplet from an
> unidentifiable source, or somebody else planted the lines in the typed
> copies, or (and) the Vatican version had been faked in modern times
> (of course by the Tristero). Anyway, Driblette, whose production is
> "particularly virtuous", found the couplet relevant and a means of
> "speaking out" to an unaware present-day public. Whatever the source
> is, he uses it as a topical comment [...]
> I mean, _for Driblette_, either by coincidence or by deliberate
> fakery, the "hallowed skein of stars" means the stars in the upper
> left corner of the flag, that is, the United States, and this is a
> deliberately anachronistic "aside", whose message is "if you accept
> the existence of Tristero, the 'real' America cannot protect you".

Just nitpicking here, but the first line in the couplet, "No hallowed
skein of stars can ward, I trow" appears in all the variants of the play -
it's only the second line that has been changed.
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