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You will remember this famous exchange between Hamlet and Polonius, in Act 3, Scene II:
Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud, that’s almost in shape like a camel?
Polonius By the mass and ’tis — like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet Or like a whale.
Polonius Very like a whale.
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Szirtes, G. (2014). Cloud Talk: Reading the Shapes in Poetry and What Becomes of Them. In: Boase-Beier, J., Fawcett, A., Wilson, P. (eds) Literary Translation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137310057_4
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