Re: Lay on, Macduff...

--- Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote:
>
> '... would the matron of honor even know about
> 'macbeth'?...'
>
> 'Lead on, Macduff,' is precisely the
> misquotation one might
> expect from someone who fancies herself cultured
> & equiped
> to be an arbiter of taste - but who has, in
> fact, very little true
> education or discrimination: the kind of woman,
> in fact,
> one would also expect to express that same petit
> bourgeois
> fastidiousness when exposed to one of the
> whoriest of old jokes
> about cigar/cigarette girls.
>
>

(Of course, there is also "Lay on, Macduff", which has
become a light-hearted expression in our culture,
usually given as "Lead on, Macduff." But the language
in Macbeth is overwhelmingly dark and agonized.)
http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/info/booksM.html

i guess the matron of honor isn't the only one.

i might appreciate the imagination and the prose which
rendered your original post, but can't endorse the
choice of venue.

kim is also a male name.

kim

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Received on Mon Aug 5 16:58:18 2002