http://trilema.com/2019/a-vvord-on-shakespear/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 21:07:06 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2019/a-vvord-on-shakespear/#comment-127681 Mircea Popescu Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:17:18 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=82426#comment-127681 Proper names are always iffy, especially if foreign. Mayhaps that's how they thought it went, for some value of they including or not the original author -- and note you that the very notion of authorship was a lot different in those days than what it became under the pressure of the dwellers of the romantic 1800s. All that yakk about "genius" and whatnot and the desperate search for a leverage out of the human condition perforce produced a view of the originator more alligned with the protestant notions of divinity ; but in the time of Shakespeare the first to have played a fiddle air took second fiddle to the one playing it currently. Proper names are always iffy, especially if foreign. Mayhaps that's how they thought it went, for some value of they including or not the original author -- and note you that the very notion of authorship was a lot different in those days than what it became under the pressure of the dwellers of the romantic 1800s. All that yakk about "genius" and whatnot and the desperate search for a leverage out of the human condition perforce produced a view of the originator more alligned with the protestant notions of divinity ; but in the time of Shakespeare the first to have played a fiddle air took second fiddle to the one playing it currently.

]]> http://trilema.com/2019/a-vvord-on-shakespear/#comment-127678 Stanislav Datskovskiy Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:21:02 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=82426#comment-127678 Per this hypothesis, how does one end up with e.g. "Rodorigo" ? Too many O in the box, and if you don't use'em all, they'll go on strike and next time you will end up with "Rdrig" ? Per this hypothesis, how does one end up with e.g. "Rodorigo" ? Too many O in the box, and if you don't use'em all, they'll go on strike and next time you will end up with "Rdrig" ?

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