The whole story of Shakespeare's thefts can be read here in "The Diamond at the End of Time."
http://northofthevortex.blogspot.com/
Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Ah. That's why he was forced to retire so young. And his death so
soon thereafter has always struck me as suspicious.
Mark
At 02:59 PM 8/26/2007, you wrote:
>That Shakespeare poem should be interpreted in light of Harry Potter
>and the Order of the Phoenix.
>
>And, of course, combined with a Marxist interpretation.
>
>Shakespeare clearly rejects bourgeois notions of property (see
>below) while making it clear that Harry and Ginny Weasley are a
>single nature. There is also an allusion to Neville Longbottom I am
>pretty sure. But I will leave that to practitioners in Gender Studies.
>
>
>So between them love did shine,
>That the turtle saw his right
>Flaming in the phoenix' sight;
>Either was the other's mine.
>
>Property was thus appalled,
>That the self was not the same;
>Single nature's double name
>Neither two nor one was called.
>
>Reason, in itself confounded,
>Saw division grow together,
>To themselves yet either neither,
>Simple were so well compounded,
>
>That it cried, How true a twain
>Seemeth this concordant one!
>Love hath reason, reason none,
>If what parts can so remain.
>
>
>
>
>Mark Weiss wrote: >But then the real
>world. I taught a few upper level Shakespeare
> >courses in those good old 90's. A desperate situation. I was just
> >grateful that some recognized that the turtle in "The Phoenix and
> >the Turtle" didn't have a shell.
>
>It's a flying reptile, no?
>
>
>
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