from Rvd Frank Gelli

Dear Siddeek
Thank you as ever for your learned literary references. Admirable.

Best
Frank

from Rvd Frank Gelli

Dear Siddeek.

I like your erudite references to English & Irish literature. Learning is wonderful.

Best

Frank

Shakespeare's best words

Usually, plays have purple passages. It is curious to notice that the purple passages in Shakespeare's four great tragedies are inspired by common daily life words or catch-phrases, far from sophistication, fine phraseology or ornamented verse. In "Hamlet", "To be or not to be" is from the verb to be, the first grammar lesson a child learns at school. In "Macbeth", the purple passage is "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorow", a word we usually use almost everyday and perhaps more than once. In "Othello", there is "Put out the lights", a phrase commonly used in daily conversation. Perhaps one of the most moving dramatic moments in "King Lear" is when Lear enters carrying body of dead Cordellia and screaming, "Howl, howl, howl", simple words commonly heard in daily life conversation