# They all go bare and they live by the air *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 14 Nov 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nigel Price *14 Nov 2002, 10:37* The Mas... >> Sorry, *hartshorn* wrote: >> Some people asked me afterwards, and I was >> able to point out the Macbeth connection here: >> "poor Tom's a-cold", and so forth. King Lear, surely? Isn't it Edgar who mutters endlessly about poor Tom being cold? Nigel --- ### Andy Robertson *14 Nov 2002, 21:02 · follows Nigel Price* Meep. Sorry. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nigel Price" > To: > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:37 AM > Subject: (urth) They all go bare and they live by the air > The Mas... > > Sorry, *hartshorn* wrote: >>> Some people asked me afterwards, and I was >>> able to point out the Macbeth connection here: >>> "poor Tom's a-cold", and so forth. > King Lear, surely? Isn't it Edgar who mutters endlessly about poor Tom > being > cold? > > Nigel > > > -- --- ### Alice K. Turner *15 Nov 2002, 02:24 · follows Andy Robertson* > Sorry, *hartshorn* wrote: >>> Some people asked me afterwards, and I was >>> able to point out the Macbeth connection here: >>> "poor Tom's a-cold", and so forth. > King Lear, surely? Isn't it Edgar who mutters endlessly about poor Tom > being > cold? > > Nigel It is indeed Edgar in disguise. Plays so different as to seem by different authors. -alga ---