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to paraphrase Dorothy Parker "a human is like a teabag - you never know how strong
they can be until you see them in hot water."
Very good, SM! Parker is one of my favorite wits! Indeed, I quoted her elsewhere a couple of days ago.
I'm very glad to see you on here; you've introduced some really good stuff to this board!
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...the world seems so steeped in egoistic corporate power and the de-selfing of the common person (as seen in the term "consumer" usurping the place and implicit rights of "customer") that I go overboard with exaggeration at times.
Geoff, just this morning I finished reading Fast Food Nation ~ if any reader finds even *half* of Schlosser's case plausible, you're not exaggerating. It's not particularly word-related, but if anyone else has read it, I would welcome discussion of the topics via PM.
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And getting back to the whole Who-the-heck-is-Shakespeare thing, there's also the point that basically none of the extant copies of the plays were actually "written" - by hand - by their purported author; many were written after Bill died, almost certainly by the actors who played the parts. So if Hamlet doesn't remember Polonius' lines very well... or Nurse doesn't remember Romeo's lines... we certainly can't claim to have 'authoritative' versions. And how could we, anyway? Playwrights at the time didn't publish their plays - they wrote for their company, shaping characters for actors, and having their words regularly changed in rehearsal and performance. The whole idea of a static text would have been foreign; it's quite a modernist idea, as far as I can tell (but don't get me onto Eliot's Wasteland...). And does it matter? Nah. I still get a kick out of Lady Macbeth and the various fools, so who really cares who gets the credit? It's just easier to attribute to a single body...
alexis =]
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