People demand. People diss. People ditch.

I don't really know why some penmen among Chinese immigrants write slightly poetic articles over the poor and run-down Verdun area in Montreal.

Intriguing is the development of Morality Plays, following that of Mystery Plays, in the Middle Ages' Europe. I'm not sure how the relationships between them and Shakespearean dramas are.

"Having grown out of the religiously based mystery plays of the Middle Ages, they (Morality Plays) represented a shift towards a more secular base for European theatre."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_play

(By David Blackwell / http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobilestreetlife/4954319481/ /CC)

You know that man. You know he puts on a pious face. There are more people who know that than who don't.

(Continuum & spectrum) vs. (black and white)

"Good" and "bad" ... stand at opposite ends of a continuum instead of describing the two halves of a line
--Wayne Shumaker
--Excerpted from the item "continuum" in the Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary