Re: "You're a prince"
rev. bob pigeon (sid-vicious@mindspring.com)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:48:30 -0700
>> I'm quoting Merriam Webster Dictionary
>
>A lecturer - a Shakespeare expert - once told me an interesting thing. Take
>a look at any of the extant First Folios of Shakespeare's work,
>specifically, the Yorick scene from `Hamlet'. There is never anywhere a
>mention of a skull. The stage direction is: `he throws up a *spade*.
>However, look at *any* Complete and Utter edition of `Hamlet', no matter
>how scholarly or how closely it professes to stick to the original, and
>you'll never ever find anything but `He throws up a skull'. I found that
>very insightful.
>
>I guess the moral of this story is: we can't always trust our dictionaries
>(or the people who compile them), sometimes we have to trust our instincts
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this is some sort of roget conspiracy, isn't it?