[Dragaera] On a lighter note...

[Jerry Friedman]

--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Alexx Kay <alexx at panix.com> wrote:
> When SKZB was writing _Athyra_, he must have really had
> Hamlet on the
> brain.  Mark Mandel has already catalogued two
> pseudo-quotes
> (http://www.speakeasy.org/~mamandel/Cracks-and-Shards/jokes.html#Shakespeare).
>  On my current read through, I caught a third:
> 
> On page 169, Fird says "Apples. Apple's the thing.
> Where with to-"  WHich
> seems to me deliberately echoing of "...the play's
> the thing/ Wherein I'll
> catch the conscience of the king."

Very nice.  I suppose that in Fird's bizarre dialect,
"apples" is pronounced "ap-plez".
 
> I wonder if there are fourteen more such nuggets waiting to
> be found?

Oh, dear.

(Apologies to you, Philip Hart, and Scott Schultz for
the duplicate posts.)

Jerry Friedman