M&D/R&G

[Mark Smith]

Bruce L. Sublett wrote:
> 
> As I chain my way through M&D, I'm struck more and more often by the
> resemblance between M&D and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Yes.  For example,p. 44:
It seems not to belong in either of their lives.  "Was there a mistake
in the Plan of the Day?  Did we get a piece of someone else's History, a
fragment spall'd off of [sic] some Great Moment, - perhaps the late
Engagement at Quiberon Bay, - such as now and then may fly into the
ev'ryday paths of lives less dramatick? And there we are, with our Wigs
askew."
-- 

"I will glut the maw of death until it be satiated with the blood of
your friends."
Frankenstein