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A modest proposal

 
 
larry richette
 
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Reply Sun 2 Mar, 2003 11:51 am
Muerte, what on earth are you talking about? If you know, please tell the rest of us...
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muerte
 
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Reply Sun 2 Mar, 2003 08:22 pm
Oh, how disappointing!

I would have thought it would be obvious to a dilettante.
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larry richette
 
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Reply Sun 2 Mar, 2003 10:56 pm
Muerte:

Your quotation from HAMLET is misquoted. Check the second line.

We dilettantes notice fake erudition.
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muerte
 
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Reply Sun 2 Mar, 2003 11:33 pm
I'm actually quoting from lines 70 through part of 74. I imagine you are thinking of the latter part of line 74 through 78, which is more well known, but less to my liking.

Here's a more complete excerpt, in case you'd like to refresh your own erudition:

"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and, by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause...."


See you at the Dilettante Ball.
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larry richette
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2003 12:28 pm
I'm glad I got you to correct youreslf. It makes me feel like I accomplished something already this week.
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muerte
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2003 12:35 pm
Larry, is being oblivious a hobby for you or is it more of a vocation?
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larry richette
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2003 03:26 pm
I am oblivious to your juvenile provocations, Muerte. You'll have to do a lot better than you have so far if you want me to take you seriously...
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