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RE: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: May 02, 2004 - May 08, 2004 Archives

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RE: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: May 02, 2004 - May 08, 2004 Archives
by k at 12:17 pm EDT, May 7, 2004

skullaria wrote:
] WOW - Didn't Shakespeare have a way with words? -K.
]
] k wrote:
] ] [Crossposting from the Supernicety :
] ]
] ] Indeed, more proof that Shakespeare has already said pretty
] ] much everything that’s worth saying… Josh Marshall over at
] ] Talking Points Memo provides the following excerpt from
] Henry
] ] V in which the king, disguised, talks with two soldiers :

[ Dad has long said that in all of human history, two people stand out as being particularly superior, almost deific even... Shakespeare and Mozart.

Of course, I'm merely aping my father here... it was he who originally showed me that Shakespeare had already covered, usually in the most eloquent manner, every relevant human condition, reaction, or emotion likely to be possible. I'm certainly not the scholar he is, but I've never been able to refute his claim. -k]

RE: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: May 02, 2004 - May 08, 2004 Archives


 
 
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