humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

> Art Neuendorffer wrote:
> >
> > The Red-Herring League
> > -------------------------------------
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_(unit)
> > .
> > <> > America, although no longer an official unit in any nation. The league
> > most frequently expresses the distance a person, or a horse,
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nordicskiv2 wrote:
>
> ...or, in the case of the Neufer league, the distance
> a horse's hindquarters can walk in an hour...
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Do you have a horse fetish?
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> > can walk
> > in 1 hour of time (usually about 3.5 miles or 5.5 kilometres).
> [...]
> > * Measurements in the Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R.Tolkien,
> > are expressed in leagues.
>
> No, Art; only some of the characters (e.g., Gimli the Dwarf) use
> leagues. The hobbits themselves (and Gandalf and Aragorn when
> traveling with them) generally use miles. E.g., from page 283 of the
> Ballantine paperback edition of _The Fellowship of the Ring_, in the
> second line one finds
>
> "In this way they coVERed almost twenty miles before
> nightfall...[emphasis added]"
>
> Or, on page 388 of the same edition, one finds
>
> " 'There was a door south-west of Caradhras, some fifteen miles as
> the
> crow flies, and maybe twenty as the wolf runs,' answered Gandalf
> grimly."
>
> Or, a few pages later,
>
> "The Company were footsore and tired; but they trudged doggedly
> along the rough and winding track for many miles."
>
> You're out of your league, Art.
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Do all math professors have a Tolkien fetish?
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> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > Half a league, half a league,
> > Half a league onward,
> > All in the valley of Death
> > Rode the six hundred.
>
> Line 4 in the second stanza reads, as I recall,
>
> "Someone had blundered:"
>
> As usual, that would be aneuendorffer114...@comicass.nut.

Your's not to make reply,
Your's not to reason why,
Your's but to do and die:

Art Neuendorffer