At 16:00 04 October 2003, Chris Ocallaghan wrote:
Karl,

Playing verbal tennis with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,
Hamlet says:

'I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is
southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.'

Most Shakespeare scholars get hung up on 'handsaw,'
finding the
hardware reference a non-sequitor. But later in the
play, Hamlet
admonishes a troop of actors...

'Nor do not saw the air
too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;'

Shakespeare uses many falconry allusions. At the end
of a NNW day on
the ridge, there's generally a lot of hand sawing going
on. Pretty
cool coincidence that I guy who never dreamed of ridge
soaring would
'get it' so well.

Great flying with you on Thursday. Coming out of the
snow showers and
seeing you laying the thread to lead us home was priceless.
Sometimes
it pays to be an eastern pilot, in a way that's hard
to make western
pilots understand. Especially when you have a bald
eagle saluting your
efforts at the end of the day.

Tally-ho!

OC


Q. Is a non-sequitor a person who uses non-sequiturs?