Abstract
Polonius’s advice seems worthy until you realize that it is the long-winded, somewhat foolish Polonius who is giving it. We might offer a Latin syllogism: Polonius is a man, men are fools, therefore Polonius is a fool, a syllogism that seems to us correct as applied to Polonius, but certainly not applied to ourselves. And yet …
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Notes
- 1.Gabriel Conroy is a main character in “The Dead.” See James Joyce, Dubliners (New York: Modern Library, 2012). All references are to this edition.Google Scholar
- 2.e. e. cummings, Collected Poems (Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1977).Google Scholar
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