Pynchon, CofL49 Look What I found in Shakespeare

[Michael Bailey]

>> not to mention that Wittenberg University wasn't to be founded yet for
>> hundreds of years!
>
> Not sure what you mean here; Wittenberg is taken uo fron Ur-Hamlet, so
> after Luther.
>

time-of-writing-wise, yes...

but the story is from Saxo Grammaticus (what a cool name), and the
legend dates from before his time.
I dunno, don't you always picture the action in Hamlet taking place in
the darkest of the dark ages?

I mean, like you picture Julius Caesar taking place in ancient Rome,
not Elizabethan England...right?

so if Wittenberg was founded in 1500 something, it was only a gleam in
the eye of some monk in a scriptorium somewhere near Elsinore while
the events in Hamlet occurred



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- "Only thing that makes life a gain
is a southbound ticket on a southbound train"
- (what I have heard every time till I looked it up today)

Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again
Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train - Bob Dylan, "Freight Train Blues"