Word: birnam
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...Birnam were more purely comic he would be Mr. Toad; if he were more purely tragic he would be Hamlet...
...sense, every novel creates a little world of its own. In that sense The Lost Weekend is a world inhabited by only one soul, and that one damned. The story tells of five days in the life of Don Birnam, a clever coward who is drinking himself to death...
...part; various people from whom he "borrows" money he will never repay, with whom he makes dates he never keeps or from whom he buys the liquor that is alternately his salvation, his personal devil and his end-all − all these people are seen only from Don Birnam's view; they are important only in so far as they reflect his situation or supply the background for his lyrical ad ventures...
...Macbeth was roaring his last speech to Macduff. His bosom heaved, and his voice thundered out over the audience, rolling majestically up even to the furthermost balcony. His bushy red eyebrows beetled noticeably. Everything had gone against him. His wife had died pitiably. Ten thousand English soldiers had brought Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane. And he was fighting a man not born of a woman. But, despite the witches' warning which must have been ringing in his ears, Macbeth bellowed his own obituary: "Lay on, Macduff; and damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough...
...custom was, and it affords him an opportunity for a bad pun or two. There are other puns. The movement of the fleet during the evacuation of Boston by the British in 1776 reminded one witness, it is recorded, of a "moving forest." To which Mr. Thompson adds: "a Birnam Wood moving on towards Dunsinano, with reverse English...