John Logie Baird?

[Guillermo L. Verdecchia]

I'll put my pesos on Number 5. I believe that John Logie Baird was a
colleague if not a close friend of Pierre Menard's.

GLV

At 23:00 18/01/00 -0500, you wrote:


>A few guesses:
>
>1) He was the editor who fixed the definitive punctuation and spelling of
>the corrupted/inconsistent text(s) of R&J.
>
>2) He supplied this whole new replacement text where there was an ellipsis
>in extant versions.
>
>3) He quoted the text in some other context in a particularly clever way
>that I should have heard about but haven't.
>
>4) Dennis isn't nearly as well-informed about authorship as we might assume
>he is.
>
>5) There is a difference, so subtle as to be almost impossible to perceive,
>between the Shakespeare text and the JLB text, but the adjustment is so
>elegant that it demonstrates the supremacy of JLB's genius over even
>Shakespeare.
>
>6)  The attribution of "But soft..." to JLB is a provocation intended to
>sollicit an e-mail responce exactly along the lines of what you are reading
>right now.
>
>
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>To: CANDRAMA at listserv.unb.ca
>Subject: Edmund Kean
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>Dear Colleagues:
>
>Who is *the* scholar, worldwide, who is an expert on Edmund
>Kean?
>
>
>DWS
>
>"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
>It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
>Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon."
>--John Logie Baird (1925)
>
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