For comment, please...
Jeff Zeitlin
(02 Jan 2017 00:17 UTC)
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Re: [TML] For comment, please...
Douglas Berry
(02 Jan 2017 01:20 UTC)
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Re: [TML] For comment, please...
Jeff Zeitlin
(03 Jan 2017 00:11 UTC)
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Richard Aiken
(03 Jan 2017 10:32 UTC)
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Re: [TML] For comment, please...
Jeff Zeitlin
(05 Jan 2017 23:01 UTC)
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Re: [TML] For comment, please...
shadow@xxxxxx
(03 Jan 2017 10:13 UTC)
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Re: [TML] For comment, please... Jeff Zeitlin (05 Jan 2017 23:04 UTC)
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Re: [TML] For comment, please... Jeff Zeitlin 05 Jan 2017 23:04 UTC
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:12:32 -0800, you wrote to Freelance Traveller: >On 1 Jan 2017 at 19:17, Jeff Zeitlin wrote: > >> The following is a description of what I have been calling a "Horatio" >> (in my own mind). The reference is to the well-known line from >> Shakespeare's _Hamlet_: "There are more things in heaven and earth, >> Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." > >Most peoipole think the emphasis is on "philosophy": > >"... then are dreamt of in your *philosophy*." > >This inmplyimng that philosophy is bunk. Which is another mistake, because in context at the time, 'philosophy' was a common 'shorthand' for 'natural philosophy', which was the closest thing to what we'd call 'science' now. >But as I understand it, the original emphasis was on "your": > >"... then are dreamt of in *your* philosophy." > >Thus implying that it's *Horatio* who is lacfking in vision. This, I will agree with, with the addendum that Hamlet may also be implying that _he, himself_ may suffer (or have previously suffered) the same lack of vision. But the question is, when I'm quoting it now, with the meaning of 'philosophy' I give above, just _who_ is Horatio?