The famous quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet makes a literal reference to the materiality of words. I would like to start from this canonical point to make a leap to the immateriality of digital literature or art. Nowadays there is something about digital literature that, despite being one of ...
Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, famously penned, "To be or not to be, that is the question." This iconic line from Hamlet encapsulates the fundamental struggle of existence, the agonizing choice between living and ceasing to be. Beyond literature, the world of science and phi...
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1941), when he ascended to a level of 33,000 feet in a Spitfire MKI and recalled a line of poetry: “to touch the face of God.” Soon after he landed, Magee began the poem; when it was completed he wrote it on the back
The word had many forms in Middle English and early Modern English, includingportepyn(influenced byport"to carry," as though "carry-spine"),porkpen,porkenpick,porpoynt, and Shakespeare'sporpentine(in "Hamlet"). The same notion forms the name in other languages (Dutchstekel-varken, GermanStac...
The story Hamlet can be interpreted in many different ways. Shakespeare's goal was to make a broad spectrum of meanings. The themes can be death, revenge,...
A stallion”. This quote reveals that Hamlet would look at himself as a coward for not avenging his father's murder and, therefore, like a woman; and not just any women, a “whore”.. During Act 3 Hamlet switch over to a more suicidal character.Lines 57-59 Hamlet states “To be, ...
Phr. it must go no further, it will go no further; don’t tell a soul; tell it not in Gath, nobody the wiser; alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Lat.]; let it be tenable in your silence still [Hamlet]. [confidential disclosure to news reporters] background information, deep back...
Consider now a second scenario where a succession of ten or more decades without extreme global-average temperatures is followed by two decades with decidedly higher averages;possibly we shall face such a situation before the 20th century ends.Does this scenario really differ from the previous one...
厙is an exceedingly rare character; dictionaries usually define it as a ‘family name’; sometimes it is also used as dialect word meaning ‘village; hamlet’. 50 Wéi xián jiǎnzé 唯嫌揀擇 is explained as “one has only to avoid discrimination (in order to attain the ultimate path)”...