“I’m very sorry you’ve been annoyed,” said Alice…
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We’re so pleased with our first comment (see June 17) that we’ve decided to respond to it in a separate post. Blogger Mark sadly queries (waxing literary with a reference to Hamlet), “My Lady thou dost protest too much or is it does?” (We fear he may have been trying to quote exactly.)
Well, our earlier post already answered his question, so we invite him to read it again for the answer. Here we merely advise that (1) in his sadness, he forgot the comma to set off words in direct address and (2) Shakespeare actually wrote, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” (III, ii, 230). Let’s hope the future brings us more literate adversaries.
Mark, where do you see hatred in this?
ReplyDeleteI find it to be a light-hearted, hilarious,INTELLIGENT correction of an embarrassment of a book. Are we supposed to bury our heads in the sand just because the book was written by a priest? The fact that it was written by a traditional priest is all the more reason to correct it.