On Dec 3, 2011, at 1:05 AM, Jansy wrote:
In the Nab-L interpretations for the irony in Shade's lines ( "other men die, but I/Am not another...") has been brought up in the past in connection to Marcel Duchamp's epitaph: "D'ailleurs, c'est toujours les autres qui meurent" ("Besides, it's always other people who die.") and other suggestions.
Thanks for the Duchamp citation as possible allusion. It is, I think, in itself, worth knowing.
But the point I was making is that, for a variety reasons, it seems that Shade believes himself to be immortal.
In fact he says so explicitly in the lines beginning: Other men die...
The issue is: does he mean them; or is there an alternative, ironic interpretation.
I don't see that the Duchamp quote provides such an alternative.
Perhaps I'm overlooking something.
Yours,
~/gsl