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Joseph Littleshoes wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> I doubt if littleshoes has enough brains to have worked
>> that one out.
>>
>>

>
> Given your chosen nom de net, you shouldn't be so quick to judge.
>
> Ophelia talks in riddles and rhymes, sings some "mad" and bawdy songs
> about death and a maiden losing her virginity. After bidding everyone
> a "good night", she exits.
>
> "Gertrude says that Ophelia appeared "incapable of her own distress"
> like a mad person would be."
>
> "Whereas for Hamlet madness is metaphysical, linked with culture, for
> Ophelia it is a product of the female body and female nature...."


Yawn!!! If you think I don't know in which play Ophelia features then you
are quite wrong. I have no intention of discussing Hamlet with you, because
it has no bearing on your stupidity.