[Dragaera] On a lighter note...

[Jerry Friedman]

--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- 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."
...

> > I wonder if there are fourteen more such nuggets
> waiting to
> > be found?
> 
> Oh, dear.

Chapter 2, "...Savn had rarely, if ever, seen the place
so full, even when Avin the Bard had come through."

The Bard of Avon?

Jerry Friedman