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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.
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?
Leave aside Hamlet's Dear Dead Dad, daemons come smack out of Hierarchy of
Spirits in Chaldaen cosmology.
I think.
But bugger me if I can work this out just now.
:-(
Robin
I know - for the Snark was a
Boojum, you see.
jaywalker
Robin Hamilton wrote:
>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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