Thursday, November 17, 2005

Found while looking for something else

What happens when a real-life forensic expert reads Macbeth? This happens.

It's sort of Shakespeare-meets-CSI, although the better analogy might well be to the Thurber classic, "The Macbeth Murder Mystery:"
"And do you know what I'm going to do now?"

"No," she said. "What?"

"Buy a copy of 'Hamlet,'" I said, "and solve that!"

My companion's eye brightened. "Then," she said, "you don't think Hamlet did it?"

"I am," I said, "absolutely positive he didn't."

"But who," she demanded, "do you suspect?" I looked at her cryptically.

"Everybody," I said, and disappeared into a small grove of trees as silently as I had come.

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