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Re: Read Sales in the Subset
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Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:33:28 GMT
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Perhaps the Danes don't hold the same values to
left/right sidedness as other cultures?


Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was warned by Polonius to "beware the sinister
sword".

Quite a nice play on words there by Shakespeare, since it was the second
sword (held en-passant in the left hand) that was poisoned, hence
sinister in both the Latin and English meanings of the word. :)

It's been a while since I've read some Shakespeare, but it's little
things like this that just reinforce just how good a writer he was.

David Drew



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  Re: Read Sales in the Subset
 
(...) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was warned by Polonius to "beware the sinister sword". Kerry (20 years ago, 18-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

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