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HORATIO’S TRIBUTE AND A RAYMOND CHANDLER FALSE LEAD

WHAT’S THE LINK BETWEEN Horatio’s last words in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Harry Jones’s final misleading in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep?  This is the sort of thing that pops into … Continue reading

August 7, 2024 · 3 Comments

FUNICULÌ, FUNICULÀ!

THE NEAPOLITAN ditty Funiculì, Funiculà celebrated the 1880 opening of the first funicular on Mount Vesuvius. Today here at SimanaitisSays, I celebrate this steep form of rail transportation based on … Continue reading

June 23, 2018 · 3 Comments