I'll come running to Thai your Balloon & Doc's a sky sawing Knight W/Talking backward

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 21:28:59 CST 2009


ACT I
SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle.

FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO
BERNARDO
Who's there?

FRANCISCO
Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.

Bernardo speaks the opening line of the play, but it is Francisco's line.


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:20 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is Larry acting as if he just smoked Thai weed? Because he is
> going to smkoe some Thai weed?
> Why are the conversations in Chapter 15 backward? We've seen this in
> other chapters; we can't tell who is saying what.
> Why would P do that?
> It does remind us of Hamlet; that deeply flawed loose baggy
> cutting-room-floor paste-up play that begins with the guards crossing
> up their lines. The world has come unhindged and has rolled over.
> Vegas wheels of capitalism turning and stinking from nyc to denmark.
>



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