Sunday, 21 December 2025

Macbeth And Hamlet

"Inside Earth."

(There are more cover illustrations for "Inside Earth" than we can use.)

We quoted Macbeth.

Now the alien narrator quotes Hamlet:

"The time is out of joint
"O cursed spite,
"That ever I was born
"To set it right."

- as did Manse Everard:

"'The time is out of joint and you can't set it right today. You can't.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Star of the Sea" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, December 2010), pp. 467-640 AT 14, A.D. 43, p. 593.

We find unexpected connections.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Or we find reminders of how Anderson was a fan of Shakespeare and enjoyed quoting from or alluding to his plays. To say nothing of how he was also a fan of the works of Kipling and Doyle.

Merry Christmas! Sean