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<font size=3>At 3/28/2014 09:03 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Charles C Doyle wrote:<br>
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> Still, any teacher of literature will have encountered student
essays<br>
> that say things like "With this quote Hamlet implies . .
." or even<br>
> "Hamlet says this quote to imply . . . ."<br><br>
Parody Student: I don't know why Shakespeare is a big deal when he
has<br>
Hamlet quote these dumb clichés like 'To be or not to
be'</blockquote><br>
Along that line, my mother -- the New York City high-school English
teacher -- used to say, when I'd seen or read a play, "Shakespeare
is just full of quotations."<br><br>
Joel</font></body>
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