[Dragaera] On a lighter note...

[skzb]

Good catch, but I don't really count that as one.  Don't waste your time 
looking for 17; there are only 9.

*exits, whistling*


Jerry Friedman wrote:
> --- 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
>
>
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