Hamlet moaned "Oh that this too, too solid flesh
would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew." So not entirely the
same sentiments
G
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Subject: [CHA] all that is solid....
the hamlet quote i didnt know, others draw the connection with The
Tempest act 4: "these our actors, as i fortold you, are melted into air,
into thin air" although i seem to remember that The Tempest post dates
Hamlet. Do we know, I wonder, if M&E were deliberately paraphrasing the
bard? I would gues that someone as well read as Marx would have been
entirely familiar with the plays.
On another thread, re the dehumanisation of public space, just been
reading a book called virtual geographies. One chapter discusses how
Victor Hugo criticised what Hausman and Napoleon were doing to Paris
along this lines, so its not a new idea.
p g-b
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