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Seeing a reference to a new Washington Post blog called whorunsgov.com, I initially read it as whoresongov.com. So I googled "shakespeare whoreson" to double-check where I'd seen this word before, and I came to this in King Lear: "Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!" Sounds like something that should go in the colophon of the Corflu Zed program book.

Whores-on-ice!

Date: 2009-01-22 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jrittenhouse.livejournal.com
Sounds like what the Department of the Interior in Denver and the Big Oil outfits had going on.

Date: 2009-01-22 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com
I love it! Do we have a title for the program book yet? I think we do now.

Date: 2009-01-22 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com
By weird coincidence, I've just read a paper on Shakespeare translation that discusses this very passage.

Ce zéro, fils de pute! Cette trentième lettre de l'alphabet!

(Ruth Morse, "Reflections in Shakespeare Translation", Yearbook of English Studies 36.1 (2006), p. 81)

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