okay, be deluded if you please. i'll allow it. actually i like hard copy
myself.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rayna Lamb [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 11:59 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Reading
Wow, really???? THAT is something that won't come out in your average
uni lecture on Shakespeare I'll bet! I'm off to get a copy of the
play asap. (and to everyone out there who will prob. tell me I can
get a copy off the web, yes I know, but I still like to think the
printed page is superior to computers!!! <grin> Allow me my delusion!)
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:48:12AM -0500, greer.bobby wrote:
Rayna,
It is my understanding that King Lear was disabled and was probably
CP. The
famous line, "Now is the summer of our discontent..." is the beginning
of the
silliloquy to which I referred.
Bobby
Rayna Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:59:06AM -0500, Bobby Greer wrote:
> In a message dated 3/21/01 1:44:01 PM,
[log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << Mind you, I'm a fully fledged highbrow literary snob now, and
proud of
> it!!!!!!!!! >>
>
> Now Rayna, don't go too highbrow on us. I liked King Lear mysel.
The best
> sililoquy on being CP I have ever read. Ol' William Shakespeare
had a way
> with words!
>
> Bobby
>
> Haven't most of my contributions to the list proved that I'm quite
> capable of being lowbrow? lol
> Haven't read King Lear yet, I'll have to keep an eye out for the
> soliloquy you mentioned. The Bard certainly did do wonderful things
> with language, I can forgive him for having such BIMBOS for female
> characters because of that. And he gave us the perfect quote for
> summing the human race, `Oh Lord, what fools these mortals be'.
>
> Rayna
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