Re: Digest Number 666

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Interested in the NUMBER of this one. One theory would have it that

Shakespeare's model for prospero was Dee. Dee is certainly opne of

the more fascinating lads around at that time.

Thaznks for quotes and tweak.

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> Oh, and thanks from me too, Phoebe, for your quotes! Such loveliness. One

> of my favorite is from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which I first heard read by

> Ralph , the English actor, in the film, The Four Feathers; in the

> story, having been blinded, he reads it from a book written in Braille. It

> hit me, struck me all of a heap!

>  

> Be not afeared,

> The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs

> That give delight and hurt not.

> Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

> Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,

> That if I then had wak'd after long sleep

> Will make me sleep again: and then in dreaming

> The clouds methought would open and show riches

> Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd

> I cried to dream again.

>  

> lovely passage... Tempest is a wonder.

[Guest guest]

<< Interested in the NUMBER of this one. One theory would have it that

Shakespeare's model for Prospero was Dee. Dee is certainly one of

the more fascinating lads around at that time.

Thanks for quotes and tweak.

m >>

You're welcome! Interesting about Dee. He sure was fascinating, from what

I've read - a long time ago, now.

ML

[Guest guest]

There's a great book out on Dee just recently. Yclept 'The Queen's Conjurer'

it's by a guy named Woolley and published by Harper .

Several friends are named in the credits.

Well worth a look.

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