Re: LotR is IMO without merit

In article <a7885d16-7274-4348-8c0d-7eccde550042@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

Anthony Nance wrote:
William December Starr <wdstarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I like "Ho! I am slain!"

Yabbut, who's he calling "Ho"?

One Google later, I think the line may be slightly misread.
Apparently, Polonius (in _Hamlet_), Roderigo (in _Othello), Cade
(in Henry VI part II) and Cornwall's servant (iI think)(in _King
Lear_) all go out on, "O, I am slain!"

I'm almost certain that the copy of "Hamlet" that they handed out to
us in the eleventh grade said "Ho," though now I see that I
mis-reproduced the punctuation; it should be "Ho, I am slain!" (Of
course "O" and "Ho" are both just transcriptions of a sound that an
actor emitted, so barring the recovery of a script in Shakespeare's
handwriting either can be said to be correct.)

The servant getting out another line, "My lord, you have one eye
left..." (Not for long.) And of course you want to plan for
something memorable like "What an artist dies in me!" But of
course last words are a different topic, and to be honest it isn't
you that it's going to matter to. And I can't remember which
comedian it was who described the problem of delivering your last
verbal coup and then not dying right away, you're stuck then...

"Make up something clever and tell them I said it" is always good.

-- wds

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