Six Fingers and no Thumbs
Look at that face: butter wouldn’t melt, as the English idiom goes. A picture of total innocence. Mouth slightly agape, and he has an expression of someone lost in thought. Considering that he wears a teacher’s academic gown, it might be he’s concerned for his pupils: when are they going to understand me? Or, perhaps something’s lost and it’s difficult to remember where it last was. He has his real feather pen, and a lovely clean sheet of paper, but wait! Where’s his ink? We shall soon see exactly what’s really going on under that guise. We might even find that ink. This poor essay omits much background material covering the subject of Shakespeare. The reason for this is because there’s a mountain of information in the public domain, and we have neither time, nor space to search worn ground for well-chewed chestnuts, most of our material will be new. Although great effort has been expended to make understanding this essay as easy as possible, that understanding will be severely t...
