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To: Torie
It is life enhancing, and give meaning and enjoyment to one’s being during our brief existence on this mortal coil,

I hesistate to play the Bard's pedant, but it's "in" this mortal coil. "Mortal coil" has reference to one's body. When one dies, his spirit shuffles off its coil, i.e., leaves the body.

Another common piece of fractured Shakespeare is "hoist on their own petard." A petard is an explosive, a bomb. Thus it is properly written "hoist by their own petard." Ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Before one shuffles off his mortal coil, before life's brief candle is put out, one should take time to read--deeply read (and occasionally memorize) and recite--Shakespeare. All of it. Even Titus Andronicus.

4,135 posted on 04/22/2007 9:43:24 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles

You and I disagree on a lot, but my English geek thanks you for that.


4,144 posted on 04/22/2007 9:45:23 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: JCEccles

I will ponder that one. To me, it means a place, that an inner being. Thanks for you kind note.


4,178 posted on 04/22/2007 9:52:39 PM PDT by Torie (The real facts can sometimes be inconvenient things)
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To: JCEccles
Shakespeare. All of it. Even Titus Andronicus.

Done that. But, seriously, you can skip Timon of Athens.

4,558 posted on 04/23/2007 6:51:30 AM PDT by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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