On 6 December Stephen Black cited: > Theodore Dalrymple, writing in the _City Journal_ (Autumn 2005) [ ] > at http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_4_oh_to_be.html
Dalrymple writes: "The convinced Baconians, Oxfordians, and Marlovians - those who believe that Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere, and Christopher Marlowe were the true authors of those plays and poems ascribed to Shakespeare... do not take kindly to the casual denigration of their efforts by people who assume without further ado that the two Shakespeares were one and the same man." Sometimes they have to contend with awkward facts, such as that their favoured candidate died before several of the great plays were written. Still there's always a way round such petty details, e.g., the death was faked, or whatever. Stephen wrote: >and by the way, I'm on record as proposing that William >Shakespeare actually wrote the Theory of Relativity. In fact Shakespeare anticipated Newton, not Einstein. He was clearly alluding to the laws of projectile motion when he had Hamlet discourse on "slings and arrows". And another thing: Annette Taylor, on the "Mozart effect" entry in Wikipedia: >Looks balanced to me.... Paul Brandon: >Does that mean half accurate, half inaccurate? Annette: >No I meant I thought it looked like it presented the research both >in favor and not in favor of the Mozart effect, with the "correct" >conclusion: that the "effect" is grossly exaggerated :) After Stephen's description of the Wikipedia entry on Einstein/Maric as "balanced", can we dispense with the use of this ambiguous word in such contexts in future. -:) (Sorry, Stephen!) Allen Esterson --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
