Sam Shuman suggested that every participant should
keep his input at the level of a one-per-day quota.
I would like to bring up a different option.
I don't know if the present program for N-L
distribution could allow the participants a choice, while enrolling,
between (a) getting every mail whenever sent;
(b) receiving a daily package only once;
(c) following the messages only through the
Archives.
(d) some other kind of arrangement that
still leaves open space for livelier messages, but protects those who want
a more restrained participation.
S K-B wrote: “To be or not to be” is not simply a
‘question’ in the modern sense of FAQ/FUQ (computerese for Frequently
Asked/Unanswered Questions). Rather, to all but the basest (unversed!!) of
groundlings, the audience would take in the wider semantic drift of the Latin
‘quaestio’ -- inquiry, investigation, examination by TORTURE!
..."
Included amidst the unversed in the "wider
semantic drift of the Latin 'quaestio' " even so I'd like to
"question" if that tortured meaning was really part of Hamlet's
soliloquacious doubts. Inquisition's inquiry and, instead of
"questioning", interrogation ( "interrogatório" in Portuguese, I don't know what
word would be used in Spanish, Italian or French) now seem to be
closer to this "question".
Albeit indirectly, I enjoyed
the shift towards a discussion of Bend Sinister or
Invitation...