Re[2]: Yorick's skull-- 2b || !2b
Christy Bright (christy_bright@smb.com)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 13:29:42 -0500
1. i'm well aware that neither are "wacky". it was a joke.
2. so it is NOT yurick's skull that hamlet holds in his hand as he
begins the soliloquy?
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Subject: Re: Yorick's skull-- 2b || !2b
Author: <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu> at sb-entsmtp
Date: 10/1/97 6:57 PM
Ummm, no. I'm afraid you're wrong, by about two acts. I don't have H. in
front of me, but "To be or not to be, doobie doobie do" was Hamlet's
soliloqouy early in the third act. "Alas, oor Yurick, I knew him well, of
infinite jest, of excellent fancy, yada^3" doesn't appear until the fifth
act, as I recall. Neither "wacky," both are worth reading through more than
a few times. In fact, if you read nothing but those two passages, you'd
have a pretty good idea as to what H. is all about and what Bill was trying
to say.
-- Luke
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Christy Bright wrote:
>
> yorick is on the receiving end of that wacky "to be or not to be"
> spiel.
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