Hamlet Answers from the Grave

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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

As to Mr. Shirley's letter which appeared in the CRIMSON yesterday, under the caption "Man v. Kittredge," let me say once and for all that it is not my intention to enter into polemics with individuals.

Hamlet is not fighting individuals, but the world, and has chosen his battle-ground. It is not "Man v. Kittredge," but "Man v. Ape."

And Hamlet says, "Woe to him who at this duel will dip the point into poison. Such a one will surely fall and die by his own treacherous act."

As to Mr. Shirley's jesting remark: "I am sure that such a lecture would be very interesting and well attended. It should also be very entertaining, especially if the man talks the way he writes, for I could make nothing of the scheming waddle that appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON," I'll have the ghost of Hamlet answer this.

"Hamlet: O, reform it (the play) altogether. And let those that play your glowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some barren quantity of spectators to laugh too; though, in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it."

Hamlet will also answer his suggestion about the lecture hall.

"Hamlet: Sir, I will walk here in the ball; if it please his majesty, it is the breathing time of day with me; let the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the king hold his purpose, I will win for him if I can; if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits."

Let them call the wisest men and women together in said assembly and I promise that I will deliver a word from Hamlet that no human ear has ever heard before and that there will be no doubt that Bacon is the poet. To this promise there is but one condition,--namely that each one in the assembly reads the book before the meeting. Philip Francis Samuels.