M&D & R&G & that double gallows

[alice wellintown]

The idea that P is somehow prescient, and is, in that passage about a
double gallows, somehow alluding to the twin towers or the two giant
world trade center buildings that once tilted the platter of the
Manhattoes, but were razed by pirated planes then drones, struck me as
completely absurd. This got me to re-read the passage, the chapter,
and a few other things on it. It is a chapter that has been much
ruminated, and its gallows humor recalled to my fancy and broken
remembrancer one Rosencrantz or perhaps one Guildenstern sitting under
the apple treet masticating a Newtonian fruit when one falls on his
head. Dixon and Mason or perhaps Mason & Dixon are doubled up or, if
one thinks on this a while, metaphysically, though not un- or sub- or
non- Naturally,  Ampersanded by the absurdity of Hamlet's grave
speculations in and at the grave, and shown, in a dumb play, two
hanging figures, indistinguishable, though indisputably, themselves.
This, it seems to me, is what P alludes to. The commerce of the India
Company & Company, the History of Mason's tribs to the gallows not
with out standing hangs by its own P-bard allusion to Stoppard's R&G
confusion allusion.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
> R&G...?
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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:37 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> An allusion to The Absurd play.
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>