How absolute the knave is! I was being Jungian, of course - and in
Mediaeval Latin Daemon meant the Devil viz.
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be;
The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
[Mediaeval Latin, Aegrotat ** Daemon; monachus tunc esse volebat,
Daemon convaluit; **Daemon ante fuit.]
- as translated by
<http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/urquhartmotteux_a001.htm>Urquhart
and Motteux
Robin Hamilton wrote:
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>Anyway, the Ghost is really a daemon,
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>Oh dear christ in heaven, Martin, you HAVE to be joking.
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>How in god's bleeding earth do you stuff a (Neo)Platonic psychopomp into the
>middle of the only play of Shakespeare's that turns on a Catholic/Protestant
>divide?
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>Leave aside Hamlet's Dear Dead Dad, daemons come smack out of Hierarchy of
>Spirits in Chaldaen cosmology.
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>I think.
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>But bugger me if I can work this out just now.
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>Robin
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>I know - for the Snark was a
>Boojum, you see.
>jaywalker
>Robin Hamilton wrote:
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>>Shakespeare
>>a Lutheran? I thought Purgatory was a no-no under the protestant
>>dispensation,
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>>Oh shite, it's sodding +Hamlet+, and I really *don't* want to start into
>>this.
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>>and everyone is always going on about the Shakespeares'
>>Catholic connections.
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>>Bullshit.
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>>The only one who rats on about this is Ernst Honigman.
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>>Robin, no doubt, will clear this up.
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>>Robin is desperately trying to keep his mouth tightly closed and really,
>>jimmy, if you seriously want your poems published in Quids Inn (£1/ 2 Euros
>>forthcoming soon, p&p possibly included) it might be an idea to shut it and
>>try to be nice to me.
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>>Just a thot.
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>> <snarl>
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>>Da Wee M'Greegor
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