{"id":1129,"date":"2004-02-03T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2004-02-03T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T13:29:00","slug":"1129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyway. In my search referrers this morning, there’s the following question. At least, I think<\/i> it’s a question:<\/p>\n

who wrote: alas poor yorick! i knew him!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, you<\/i> did, Mystery Searcher. The actual quote you’re probably looking for is:<\/p>\n

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is!<\/br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that’s just being pedantic. The truth is, there’s some debate. Most people you ask would probably say William Shakespeare<\/a>. (And did you know you can just type the word “complete” into Google and get that link as your first result? Pretty keen, huh?) Some would say Francis Bacon<\/a> or Christopher Marlowe<\/a> or Edward de Vere<\/a>, 17th Earl of Oxford. And still yet others would claim that it was actually Mr. Norman Voles<\/a> of Gravesend, but that’s one claim that usually falls to the ground pretty quick. It’s a pretty old debate and seems to have arisen largely due to an incomplete historical record and literary snobbery. It’s used to quite nice comic effect in Jasper Fforde’s book The Eyre Affair<\/i><\/a>, in which Baconians go door-to-door Jehovah’s-Witness-like, proselytizing on the true and only author. (Incidentally, did you also know that if you type just the word “proselytizing” into Google, the first result is the definition<\/a>? I find that amusing.)<\/p>\n

Personally, I tend to favor William Shakespeare as the author. I’ve never much held with snobbery, and people much smarter than me have pored over countless books over countless years and still haven’t reached a definite conclusion. I’m not sure it matters, really. As old what’s his name also said, “the play’s the thing”.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyway. In my search referrers this morning, there’s the following question. At least, I think it’s a question: who wrote: alas poor yorick! i knew him! Well, you did, Mystery Searcher. The actual quote you’re probably looking for is: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellowof infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}