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If you have not seen this one, you might want to add it to your list. No, not one of the greatest movies, but very entertaining 100 minutes. Surely full of inside jokes (some not translatable, unfortunately), the oldest Lenski ever to walk the stage (not for too long, though...), some good music and dance. Not bad at all portraial of the vicious unwashed revolutionary hordes hell bent on destroying anything fine in sight, leaving not much but rubbish and feces around. Even the most brutal things done with subtlety and taste.One question re: Hamlet. I only read the translation, and there the poison used to kill his father was some plant extract. Here they refer to mercury. What does the original text say about it?
Victor.
From the good "quarto" version of Hamlet (1604-1605):"Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole
With juice of cursed hebona in a vial,
And in the porches of my ear did pour
The leperous distilment, whose effect
Holds such an enmity with blood of man
That swift as quicksilver it courses through
The natural gates and alleys of the body..."So it was plant toxin, but its action was as swift as quicksilver = mercury.
I await the attorneys for Shakespeare's estate to sue me for copyright infringement.
BTW Victor, "Beseiged" just opened today in "Slo-hio", so I'll look for that cracked plaster.
"Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole
With juice of cursed hebona in a vial,
And in the porches of my ear did pour
The leperous distilment, whose effect
Holds such an enmity with blood of man
That swift as quicksilver it courses through
The natural gates and alleys of the body..."That's very close to what I remember. In Russian it was called "belena" plant.
So, what's the deal with the thermometers?
The mercury thermometer was invented by Toricelli in 1644 (after Hamlet). Before that, they were water and glass. Maybe she wanted him to eat the glass and die of internal hemorrhages.
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