leptoptilus (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} leptoptilus) wrote in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} cs_lewis,@ 2008-03-11 14:05:00 |
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A question
In the 3rd chapter of 'The Discarded Image' Lewis discusses the scene from Lucan's 'Pharsalia', where ghost of Pompey "looked down and saw the mockeries done to his own corpse, which was having a wretched and hugger-mugger funeral. They made him laugh". "For Englishmen - Lewis continues - the passage, as it is well known, has another and more particular interest". Excuse me my ignoranse of 'well known' things - I'm not an Englishman after all - but what does he mean? I don't recall anything of the sort in "Hamlet" :)
In the 3rd chapter of 'The Discarded Image' Lewis discusses the scene from Lucan's 'Pharsalia', where ghost of Pompey "looked down and saw the mockeries done to his own corpse, which was having a wretched and hugger-mugger funeral. They made him laugh". "For Englishmen - Lewis continues - the passage, as it is well known, has another and more particular interest". Excuse me my ignoranse of 'well known' things - I'm not an Englishman after all - but what does he mean? I don't recall anything of the sort in "Hamlet" :)
