Susan (Suzanne?) Delange

Stephen Case · 14 Aug 2002, 01:26 · from urth-v0208.mbox · original

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From: "Stephen Case" <scase at olivet.edu>
Subject: (urth) Susan (Suzanne?) Delange
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 20:26:10 -0500
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The other day I came across something that may apply to the story Suzanne =
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Delange and may or may not have been discussed before.  Of all the Wolfe I =
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have read, that story is the one I understand the least, but from it comes =
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my favorite Lupine quote.  It's the one that goes something like (I'm =3D
quoting from memory): "The thought that had so forcibly struck me was =3D
simply this: that every man has had in the course of his existence some =3D
extraordinary experience, some dislocation of all we expect from nature =3D
and probability of such magnitude that he might in his own person serve as =
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living proof of Hamlet's hackneyed precept; but that he has-- nearly =3D
always-- been so conditioned to consider himself the most mundane of =3D
creatures, his mind, finding no relation to the rest of his life and this =
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extraordinary event, has forgotten it."
     Anyway, I had always wondered what "Hamlet's hackneyed precept" was =
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exactly. Perhaps you've all decided this to your own satisfaction, but if =
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anyone hasn't: I think it must certainly be referring to the quote that's =
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something like: "There are more things in Heaven and on earth, Horatio, =3D
than are dreampt of in your philosophy".  Am I right?  Is that what the =3D
list has come to except?  Or are there other ideas?

-Steve=3D20

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