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In reply to the discussion: Shakespeare and Myths About Genius [View all]localroger
(3,737 posts)40. Armageddon makes specific reference to the K-T impactor. So what?
When a historian shows me convincing evidence that Ramanujan really preferred to get blasted with his beer buddies on the weekends, preferred being a janitor to showing off his maths skills, regularly mastered entire fields other than math that history has documented he had no interest in, and a couple dozen other totally stupidly unrealistic things about Will Hunting, then I'll admit that maybe you have a point.
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Huckleberry Finn had nothing to do with Finnish people. Finn is a Irish-derived name and Twain stated the inspiration
Celerity
Jan 5
#35
FWIW, everyone agrees it's the Irish origin. It came from a real "Jimmy Finn"
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 5
#41
I had heard about Patrick Stewart's Shakespeare roles but had not seen any clips
GreatGazoo
Jan 3
#17
Having never read Mucedorus (but I will now) here is my analysis. Apologies for the length.
C0RI0LANUS
Jan 3
#25
You're welcome-- it won't take long. The version I read has Mucedorus using a club to kill Bremo with one blow.
C0RI0LANUS
Jan 5
#43