Merry Christmas to emacs users

Or, how I spent my Christmas vacation.

Here are texinfo and info versions of Project Gutenberg's Complete Works of Shakespeare, suitable for use in emacs or with the texinfo program (though I haven't actually tested it with texinfo).

It's a gzipped tar archive. Extracting it will give you a directory named "shakespeare" containing shakespeare.texi (the source file) and a set of info files generated from it via Makeinfo. Find out where info files live on your system, then put these info files in that directory and add the following to the 'dir' file in the directory:

* Shakespeare: (shakespeare).           The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Shakespeare.

The .texi file is included in case you want to make changes and recompile the info files.

You may also be interested in my info/texinfo editions of the Summa theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. C-u 999 M-x gloria-in-excelsis-deo.

Diagnosing Lear

Doctors have been trying to diagnose King Lear for more than two centuries. They haven't succeeded, of course, for a couple of reasons that are not mutually exclusive: first, King Lear does not exist, and second he is not available for tests or examination. The latest technology, no matter how sophisticated, will never settle the matter. No imaging studies for King Lear: he was born much too soon for them, and now will never be diagnosed properly.