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Shakespeare’s Lost Sonnets:
A Restoration of the Runes The Unedited Paste-up
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Set VII: Runes 85-98
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Set VIII: Runes 99A/99B-112A/112B
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A Brief Background on a Quirky Set Will
composed Set VIII so that it embeds A and B variants of each
of the 14 runes in the set. This subdivision occurs because Sonnet 99
has an “extra,” 15th line. The A variants emerge if a
reader/player ignores the 15th line, and the B variants,
if a reader/player ignores the first. Neither the A nor the B variant
of a given rune is primary: Each text has equal validity. Because the
variable line is initial in the text, the sense and wit
of the A and B variants of a given number can diverge significantly. More
discussion of this uniquely gamy section occurs elsewhere on the site,
especially in the individual presentation of materials from Set VIII.
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In the column below are the “A”
Variants,
which use line 1 of Sonnet 99 and omit line 15 |
In the column below are the “B” Variants, |
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Set IX: Runes 113-126
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