From curculio@glasscity.net Wed Mar 8 20:15:24 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id UAA56984 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:15:24 -0800 Received: from mail1.glasscity.net (mail1.glasscity.net [208.13.0.80]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id UAA19648 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:15:23 -0800 Received: from t9q0o0 (unverified [208.13.20.100]) by mail1.glasscity.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.6) with SMTP id for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:15:22 -0500 Message-ID: <001701bf897f$08874d40$64140dd0@t9q0o0> From: "Michael Hendry" To: References: <200003080653.PAA08022@ham.t.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp> Subject: Re: beautiful language Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:22:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Peter Green wrote (among other things): "Lines from 'Prufrock' cropping up while one boy struggled with carpentry-- 'No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be'." This reminds me of something I hadn't thought of in years. When I was in college, someone I knew invited a bunch of friends over for dinner and then couldn't start cooking on time because the chicken was taking much longer than expected to thaw. What Shakespearian quotation did she find perfectly apt? (Scroll down for answer.) Michael Hendry Bowling Green State University Home address: 129 W. Reed / Bowling Green, OH 43402 Telephone: (419) 352-6852 E-mail: curculio@glasscity.net Web-page: http://www.glasscity.net/users/curculio (still being transfered and upgraded) "Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt!" .