humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

> > 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!
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> "Peter Farey" wrote:
>
> > 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."

I never said "only."

Shame was a necessary but not sufficient condition.
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nordicskiv2 wrote:
>
> Surely you don't subscribe to Art's paranoid conspiracy theories!
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Yes, I want to subscribe to Art's paranoid conspiracy theories.

I'll get 12 issues + 2 free issues for a total of 14!
All for just $16.

That's a savings of $26 off the price I'd pay at the
newsgroupstand, plus I get to feel like one of the idiots!

In the words of Shakespeare: "WOW, what a deal!"
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> > About which particular event caused this sudden shame,
> > Art is, like the Mute Swan, strangely silent.
>
> Silent?! ***ART***??!!

Oh, come on, Dave!!
You know VERy well a Mute Swan aint Mute.

> > > > I mentioned the two biographies earlier,
> > > > and with a moment's thought
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> > David L.Webb wrote:
> > >
> > > Thought? Lackpurity?!
> > > > it might have occurred to you
> > > Not even then.
> > > All his enlightenment arises from medi(t/c)ation.
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> "Peter Farey" wrote:
>
> > 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.

HONORARY, n. The salary of a professor.
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Art Neuendorffer