Um, okay, I see how you've dispersed it. I was fuddled because I think Hamlet might be the most intelligent character in literature, Dubya's Dad was not killed, and I don't see a clear-cut Horatio on hand. I can see some Moby, some Scottish play, but can't work out Hamlet, unless it were more the Ur-Hamlet revenge play, which only Tolstoy seems to have preferred. Or unless Gore was Hamlet? Just hope it doesn't turn out all Titus Andronicus in the Coriolanus.

   If anyone can explain how Stub--I think it was--kept his pipe lit out in that sea-spray, I'd like to know. I read that book recently but don't remember it near as well as Kim C does. All the knots, the first harpoon, and second, and how they were tied. I wanted to know about that guy's pipe.