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direwolf74 Wrote:Corby Wrote:On an unrelated note, happy birthday to the Museum, Stephen. If this is late, forgive me, but I had to say it anyway. It's great work what you've done with the site and indispensable for a hip-head.
Definitely! Stephen, your site really does kick ass. I'm proud to say I visit it daily. There's a great Hip thread going on over at the Pearl Jam forum, and I think I've mentioned your site at least a dozen times. My posts always end the same way over there:
"For more info, go here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hipmuseum.com/">http://www.hipmuseum.com/</a><!-- m -->"
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Thanks Casey. I guess you were involved in the Genesis of the deal, talking Hip during that LONG car ride to Bean Town. Thanks for your contributions... and plugs!On a somewhat related note: I received these interesting notes from fellow Hipbaser John M. Here's some stuff about the Problem Bears lyric, followed by an old Tales from the Hip regarding "the cops going into the crowd."
Voltaire, Shakespeare, and Canada
"Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada."
CASP makes use of an apocryphal quote from Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire that nonetheless has an interesting (cautionary) story to it––one that is instructive in terms of how the Shakespeare effect resonates through various contexts. The misquote "Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada" is widely disseminated as accurate. In fact, it is the conflation of two separate quotes from Voltaire on Shakespeare, one a comment on Hamlet made in his Dissertation sur la tragédie ancienne et moderne, the other a comment on the English generally in relation to Shakespeare (from a letter to Bernard Joseph Saurin). The two texts that are brought together in the misquote are, in other words, from widely divergent contexts. Moreover, CASP has yet to find a hard copy source for the misquote, suggesting that the Internet circulation of the misquote has played perhaps a key role in its dissemination.
On this page CASP reproduces the inaccurate quote as well as the exact locations of the two quotes from which the inaccurate one is derived. We do so to underline how the circulation of texts can tell us a great deal about issues of interpretation––in this case, the imposition of a stereotypical colonial association between the so-called New World of Canada (and its relation to the old via the trope of London) all mediated by the potent image of the "drunken savage." Could it be that the conjunction of Canada and Shakespeare in the image of the "drunken savage" in the misquotation is indicative of an altogether other narrative? In that narrative Canada and drunken savagery literally had to be co-associated, however inaccurately, as a function of stereotypes relating to coloniality generally (the so-called New World was a "savage" place), and colonial stereotypes about indigenous, aboriginal "savagery" specifically? If such is the case, then the misquotation is indicative of the kind of imaginary space in which Shakespeare and Canada come together, however illusorily––the result of a confluence of historical determinants over which neither necessarily had control. (For more information on aboriginal culture in Canada in relation to Shakespeare please see CASP's Spotlight on Canadian Aboriginal Adaptations of Shakespeare.)
And for Yawning or Snarling:
Tales from the Hip No. 2. Feb. 1995:
Now that Day for Night will be coming out in America, I suppose we should
let you in on a few things, since we did record most of it in your country.
- 1. Bruce Dickenson is not the guy from Iron Maiden, just a good friend.
- 2. Yes, the cops did go into the crowd once in El Paso. It was at Club 101 and it was crazy. They also busted a guy in the can and almost dropped him on our guitars. Since they had guns, I let them do what they wanted.