| Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1998 : 21 June 1998 |
If Shakespeare wasn't a space alien, he must have been a time traveler. Every here and there a telltale anachronism sneaks in. Remember when Hamlet is soliloquizing about whether to "shuffle off this mortal coil"? He means DNA. And remember the speech in Macbeth where "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day/To the last syllable of recorded time"? You tell me, how could he know that if he wasn't there?
give me a clue so sweet and true
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