File under: Say it ain't so

[Victor Steinbok]

  If pigs were horses, we'd have to re-write the entire history of
warfare--and, perhaps, civilization. But it would still not be written
by Shakespeare.

     VS-)

On 10/23/2010 8:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> ...
> In the words of Kristeva, "If Shakespeare was Bacon, King Lear becomes a
> figure of infinite jest."
>
> JL

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