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Next up in the Vladiad...

Matthew Walsh walshm at ipfw.edu
Tue Feb 1 11:04:57 PST 2005

On Feb 1, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Martin Wohlert wrote:
> Matthew Walsh <walshm at ipfw.edu> wrote:
>>> FRIEDA2133.aol.com wrote on Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:58:11 EST
>> [ snip ]
>>> Vlad speaking to Savn:
>>>    Savn glanced back at him, but still wasn't certain if he were
>>> joking.  'It's easy to tell the difference,' he said, 'When you make
>>> the seedblocks and leave them in the coolhouse in barrels, the
>>> true, true salad flax will melt--'

>> Ouch.  I didn't notice that one before.  And what's worse, now the 
>> whole exchange looks to me like an excuse for that pun.
>>
>> This should be filed as a joke/allusion to /Hamlet/ on C&S, right?
>
> That confused me more than it explained anything, care to illuminate 
> me?

One of Hamlet's soliloquies -- Act 2, Scene 1 -- starts off with the 
line, "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt..."

- - Matt - -