Now Jed you shouldn't have brought Shakespeare into this discussion. Makes an old Oxfordian such as myself bristle. I have a lot of expert company too. I agree with you about Bacon, though. Denialism? Neologism?
M. --- On Mon, 5/23/11, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Book by John Michell- E-Cat ..note Obituary for Michell > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, May 23, 2011, 1:42 PM > Ron Kita wrote: > > > Houston there seems to be a problem .........with > author John Michell- > > died april 24, 2009: > > This can be found via wiki...... stoke in > England --seems to be correct. > > Ah ha. Another case like William Shakespeare, whose plays > were not written by him but by another man of the same > name. > > Some experts in Shakespeare denialism have claimed that his > plays were secretly written by Francis Bacon, the other > superlative genius the Elizabethan era. I am no expert, but > I have read a great deal of both S. & B. Anyone can see > I would love to be Prospero but life leaves me no role > greater than Trinculo, alas. Anyway, my point is, I know > those two pretty well -- probably better than your average > denialist -- and in all history there are probably not two > great geniuses whose whose imaginations, philosophies, style > of writing and overall mindset are more different than > Shakespeare and Bacon. Bacon is the patron saint of > engineers, programmers and other dull, reality-bound, > literal-mined, fact-based drones such as me. Shakespeare was > the greatest poet and free-spirit who ever spoke English. > Bacon could not more write one of Shakespeare's sonnets or a > few lines of his plays than I could climb the Matterhorn. > > I was greatly pleased to see a bust of Bacon in Jefferson's > library at Monticello, by the way. > > - Jed > >
