One big damn puzzler

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Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:25 am

This is the title of a tragicomedy by John Harding.
It begins with an old,one-legged South-sea islander, the only literate member of his tribe, who is translating HAMLET into pidgin English for the edification of his people and struggling with the famous soliloquy:

Is be ,or is be not, is be one big damn puzzler

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