humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 1, 8:27 am, "Peter Farey"
wrote:
> "spinoza1111" wrote:
>
> > I apologize if I am too offtopic in the two posts "Sonnets
> > to Sundry Notes of Music" and "SSAT Analogies".
>
> That's ok. You did make a valiant attempt to make the second
> on-topic by relating it to what happens here. You said:
>
> Fuchs is a spokesperson for the self-indulgent who pretend,
> in this ng as elsewhere, that there really is no such
> thing as polysemy, and insist, when in positions of power,
> on applying a single set of rules while pretending there
> are no alternative sets.
>
> Unfortunately, you got it entirely the wrong way round,
> since the only contributors 'in a position of power' here
> are of course the Stratfordians. And, as I explained with
> the several examples I offered, it is the Stratfordians
> who apply "a single set of rules while pretending there
> are no alternative sets."
>
> Polysemy is at the very heart of why I think what I do,
> for Pete's sake!
>
> I find Hamlet's words quite apposite for you:
>
> Free me so far in your most generous thoughts
> That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house
> And hurt my brother.

That's based on an actual event. It has
some connection to Fulke Greville. Someone
shot an arrow into a window, it killed someone
connected to Greville, I think Greville's younger brother.


> Peter F.
>
>