...he asserts his determination to follow the Ghost, and then in affirming the injunction to remember: Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records . . . And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmixed with...

...things he will "wipe away" from his mind, which at first comes tumbling out in a series of short phrases ("all trivial fond records,/ All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past") and then slows down to two longer and more carefully crafted clauses that terminate this section. The...

...joins it to lines from elsewhere in Hamlet, viz., lv95-99: "Remember thee! /Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe. Remember...memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records." 28 Perhaps "bitter" price? As is often the case, Sterne ended his entry at an earlier point, with "my...

...than a simple moral revulsion. It alienates Hamlet from all humanity, even the highest and happiest: Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all...records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past . . . (I. v. 98-100) The perfection of the courtier's dream would not satisfy him: 'the beauty of the...

...Hamlet the playwright connects a distracted condition to memory. To his father's ghost Hamlet responds, "Remember thee? / Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory...a seat / In this distracted globe. Remember thee?" (5.5.95-7). Webster uses the word's several definitions in his elegy. 20 The dismembered arms and legs...

...find himself acting? Or, "note to self: remember ghost"? On his newly blank tablet of memory, in which "all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past / That youth and observation copied there" (1.5.100-101) have been erased, what new pressure imprints the page? There is some possibility that...

...images of the Globe Theatre in London.41 When Hamlet states his response to the ghost's injunction, Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe (1.5.95-7), he is imagining his head as a theatre, the space for a memory-system, while the audience,...

...which Hamlet swears to do (Ivl 12), pledging to devote his energies to nothing else. "Yea," he says, "from the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records" (98-99). It is worth noting that the Ghost's call for revenge need not mean that it is an evil spirit...

...obsess Hamlet. After the ghost departs, Hamlet repeats the words until they become a kind of litany: Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In tliis distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond...

...wasting his time, and he maybe asking for trouble. —fOtiN O'tiARA From the table of my memory l'll wspe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books. all forms, all pressares past That yonth and observation copied there. —Bamlet, t:V. 98 LUNAR PARK 1. the begtaatags...