...name of the counsel, the hard-nosed senior senator from Pennsylvania, was "Specter": Arlen Specter. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in...complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon? Uncannily, this same Arlen Specter was the aggressive and ambitious junior counsel for the Warren Commission,...

...is that of a thoughtful, silent witness: 'Give it an understanding but no tongue.' (Hamlet I.2.250) 'What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous and we fools of nature So horridly to...

...Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again. What may this mean. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon. Making night hideous and we fools of nature So horridly to...

...to the reason for being up in arms so. Yet this question is posed specifically a few moments later: What may this mean? That thou dead Corse again in complete steel, Revisits thus the glimpses of the Moon, Making Night hideous . . . ? (FF.1.4: 636-39) The expression...

...the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost:— "What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again...complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?" [Hamlet 1.4.51-53] That imagination which dilates the closet he writes in to the world's dimension,...

...not answer fully to every need for dialogue, no matter how urgently or how eloquently voiced. HAMLET: What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making the night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly...

...prayer) royal Dane: O, answer me! (descending tone)/ . . . What may this mean (downward emphasis)/ That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel,/...thus the glimpses of the moon,/ Making night hideous (quavering voice, but firmer; slight pause) . . . / Say, why is this? (slight pause; descending tone)...

...not been corrected. APPENDIX A The Original Ku-K/ux Prescript of Reconstruction * PRESCRIPT OF THE What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again,...thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our...

...Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again. What may this mean That thou, dead corse, again in...complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. . . . And when the Ghost answers him and says: "I am thy father's spirit, / Doom'd for a certain term...

...the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost": What may this mean. That thou, dead corse, again in...complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?13 It needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us that the "dead corse" here is Shakespeare,...