humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

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"Peter Farey" wrote:

> David L.Webb wrote:
> >
> > I haven't been reading h.l.a.s. much for the past year,
> > so I missed the earlier mention of the Hoffman Prize.
> > Congratulations!

> Thank you, David. As Art generously points out, however, it
> was probably awarded to me only because "after almost 20
> years of Stratfordian boondoggle and utter disregard for
> Calvin Hoffman's wishes they were finally shamed into doing
> so."

Surely you don't subscribe to Art's paranoid conspiracy theories!

> About which particular event caused this sudden shame,
> Art is, like the Mute Swan, strangely silent.

Silent?! ***ART***??!!

> > > I mentioned the two biographies earlier, and with a mom-
> > > ent's thought

> > Thought? Lackpurity?!

> > > it might have occurred to you

> > Not even then. All his enlightenment arises from
> > medi(t/c)ation.

> No doubt. Which was why I was a little surprised at your
> leaving him to continue the 'mute swan' discussion alone
> on your behalf. :o)

I've been out of town, sick with the flu, busy professionally, and
otherwise too occupied to bother with h.l.a.s., so I had no idea that
he had done so. (Somehow, I'm disinclined to waste time on his
effusions except for an occasional bewildered glance in any event.)
But while I count you as an honorary Stratfordian, lackpurity
certainly qualifies as an honorary anti-Stratfordian.

> Peter F.
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