[Dragaera] Hamlet quotes in Athyra--summary so far

[Jon Lincicum]

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
> --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt at Kithrup.COM> wrote:
> > No, I never heard that one.  I've been reading this list
> > for > only a couple of months, and sometimes I skip it for
> > several
> > days because y'all have gotten onto some long
> > discussion of
> > something I don't understand at all.  I shall keep my
> > eyes open
> > not only for Hamlet references but Shakespearean references
> > in general.
> 
> In case you missed the discussion at the beginning of the
> month, Steve said there are nine of these in /Athyra/,
> plus one that doesn't count ("Avin the Bard").  Two are
> at
> 
> http://www.speakeasy.org/~mamandel/Cracks-and-Shards/jokes.html#Shakespeare
> 
> (If you don't know Mark's pages, I join others in
> recommending them highly.)  A third is "Apples the
> thing.  Where with to--" after "The play's the thing/
> Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."  As
> you can see, they can be strained.  Speaking of which,
> a fourth may be "Aye, what he knows", which we've been
> discussing.

In Act II, Scene 1 of Hamlet, Reynaldo says:

"Ay, my lord,
I would know that."

Is this close enough? Or perhaps this, like the "bible code" or Nostradamus, this is just a case of any two works of sufficient length having some apparent similarities if you bend things far enough. 

Majikjon