Inside the Whale's Stomach
Julius Caesar was killed during the Ides of March, 44 BC, stabbed multiple times by multiple people wielding various knives of different shapes and sizes. The Emporer of Rome, on the verge of becoming a vicious dictator, and the title character of William Shakespeare's beautiful play, brutally murdered by his friends, foes and fellow colleagues - he died in a puddle of his own blood, staring up at the ceiling of the Theatre of Pompey. How unfortunate. 2,063 years later and I'm sat at my computer, writing up a story about the Master luring an unsuspecting politician into his TARDIS, which then proceeds to gobble her up for energy so the Master can carry on doing very terrible things throughout time and space. Those two events might appear unconnected, but if you took the time to look closely, you might find there are many similarities. However, I don't have that sort of time, so I won't be going into the details, they're probably not even there at all, but all the ...