Shakespeare Electronic Conference, SHK 7.0950. Sunday, 15 December 1996.
(1) From: Bradley S. Berens <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 1996 10:48:20 -0800
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
(2) From: John Ford <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 1996 16:17:06 -0600 (CST)
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
(3) From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 1996 18:00:53 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
(4) From: A.E.B. Coldiron <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 1996 21:17:11 -0500 (EST)
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
(5) From: Chris Stroffolino <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 15 Dec 1996 03:10:53 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
(6) From: Holger Klein <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 15 Dec 1996 14:40:46 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
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From: Bradley S. Berens <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 1996 10:48:20 -0800
Subject: 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
For Chris Stoffolino,
Do you mean this passage from Twelfth Night, 5.1?--
Clown: Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me;
now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by
my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself,
and by my friends, I am abused: so that,
conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives
make your two affirmatives why then, the worse for
my friends and the better for my foes.
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From: John Ford <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 1996 16:17:06 -0600 (CST)
Subject: 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
To Cris Stroffolino,
I suppose by now you're the better for all your foes and friends who have sent
you their answers--and that by now you know, as well as any man in SHAKSPERIA,
that you're looking for Feste. But that's all one.
Cheers, John Ford
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From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 1996 18:00:53 -0500
Subject: 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
How about "conclusions to be as kisses" (TN 5.1.20)?
Yours, Bill Godshalk
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From: A.E.B. Coldiron <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 1996 21:17:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
Twelfth Night's Clown Feste, at V.1.21 or so. Too late for an "A"?
A. Coldiron
Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor, Towson State University
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From: Chris Stroffolino <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 15 Dec 1996 03:10:53 -0500
Subject: 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
Thanks to all who backchanneled me with the proper answer to my question and/or
quiz ---there was no single winner--everyone agreed that it was Ghandi I mean
Feste in act 5. Now, I'd like to turn the informational question into a more
speculative register. Why do you (anyone) think Feste would make the link
between "conclusions" and "kisses"? Especially in a play with such an interest
in "conclusion"--or is it just a rhetorical figure that should not be taken
seriously on the thematic level? Or does it complicate the "journeys end in
lovers meeting"? Just curious. Thanks, Chris Stroffolino
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From: Holger Klein <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 15 Dec 1996 14:40:46 +0100
Subject: 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0949 Q: Kisses, Conclusions
Clown=Feste to the Duke in TN 5.1.ca. 21 (Harvard Concordance): "so that,
conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives
...."
Ask me another, this is too easy. And good luck!
Yours sincerely,
Holger Klein (Salzburg University)
