VL is apparently *not* about WORK

[Terrance]

Tim Strzechowski wrote:
> 
> Well, I know you can't be suggesting that merely because a famous person
> boiled down a complex literary work into a clever, simple sentence it does
> any justice whatsoever to understanding that literary work.

Right, I think LO's Hamlet is interesting but deeply flawed. His
pronouncement that Hamlet is About a man who can not make up his mind is
simply ridiculous. Maybe that's why he cut a good portion of the play
out. I can't stand to see a single syllable cut from one of Bill's
plays. 



> 
> I'm not sure what the repeated hammer reference is about.  I assume I missed
> a joke or something here.

An obscure allusion to my unpublished (recently performed by the
Tralfamelessadoration Players Off Milky Way) play. It's about a
carpenter who falls in love with his hammer and ends up working in a
factory. Yup, a tragedy.  

> 
> But the fact that Kinbote (a literary invention) does it, too, says
> something about his personality, his perception of literature and its
> complexities, his assumptions about readers, and the readers who fail to
> recognize (or at least question) its significance.


You really put the KIN in Kinbote this time, Timmy.