...Tom, Lear has one of his flashes of insight: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha, here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor,...

...iv, 99-103] Now I can't remember the original punctuation, but I couldn't make it my own until I said Thou art the thing itself- unaccommodated. Man is...more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. JWRM. You see I have a query against that line. DS. Oh, how extraordinary! But there he is naked,...

...actively seeks knowledge out by the use of 'reason in madness'. He sees Edgar as the image of truth — ' unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art' (in, iv, 109-11) — and proceeds to tear off his own clothes in an action expressive of his desire...

...followed by the imperative to rid oneself of them, if only symbolically. Of Edgar's persona, Lear says, "Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! come, unbutton here" (Ill.iv. 111-14). In "Mont Blanc," the violent weather...

...we experience ourselves in the world. DEFINING "HUMAN": THE NON-PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES Unaccomodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. — King Lear Without giving the matter much thought, it seems clear what we mean by "human."...

...encountering Edgar on the wild heath. Lear fumes 'Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no...more but such a poor. bare, forked animal as thou art' (King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4). 16 On collective narrative-making among refugees see chapter 7 of...

...he's 'reserved a blanket'). FIRST READING 25 Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? Here's three on's us are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,...

...book. I9 ie his hotse, named for a French prince. 20 'Stop' io French. Consider him weli. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's tbree on V are sophisticated, thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no more but such...

...words, 'a forked straddling animal with bandy legs'. Swift was echoing Lear's comment on Poor Tom, 'Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art' (3.4.1o6-7). Shakespeare evidently shared Carlyle's double perspective on clothes, and saw too...

...of the skies, rather than the soul. He asks: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no...more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off you lendings! Come; unbutton here. The form of the statement "is no more than" is familiar...