M & D deep duck in a tempest

[Mark Kohut]

well, just a day too late, ( but never rally) I have reread The Tempest because M & D echoes. I urge you to. they are rife, I tell ya, rife.

first, as we know.The play about " brave new world that has such creatures in it". The Americas.
Besides the couple-three allusions I've put down, we have the whole not-very-sub text of the play, colonialism. Caliban, the " monster," was the original inhabitant of the island. Caliban is referred to as " slave" , Prospero's,three-four times. at one point, Caliban trying to hide under underbrush is discovered on all fours, and he who discovers talks of exhibiting him back home where a fortune can be made! 

Prospero spins the magic, creates the story. Prospero with speeches to make many commentators see Shakepeare as alluding to himself as story creator. (Like us on Cherrycoke) .most famous speech " all spirits melted into air [ at the end] .." As dreams are made on"...he speaks of a missing soul 
 
Prospero's magic comes from his " books", mysteriously unspecified. cf. Book delta book, or as Keith put it: books all the way down, I think Pynchon reinforces the web of allusions and magic tales he is putting down. 

there is a line that reads " to steal by line and level" ! Shakespeare so brilliantly seeing the takeover of the original island and I think the only reference to technology, if it be, in the play. 
And one more I had in mind and have already lost. and whatever ones I missed. 






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