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The association of lime and bones is not accidental: Limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3) is nothing but the fossilized skeletons of tiny sea animals, and calcium is the principal ingredient of bone; when Shakespeare wrote, in The Tempest , that Of his bones are coral made, he stated a truer fact of nature than he may have known.
Despite its air of implausibility and apparent unreality, this issue is more than just a tempest in a teepee or a war over words.
Television-- The Tempest (NBC);
Shakespeare knew of primroses ( Cymbeline ), cowslips ( The Tempest ), and oxlips ( The Winter's Tale ), and presumably the difference between them although there seems to be no way of knowing which oxlip he meant.
"It has come to this: the natural desire of a young woman for an aggressive, handsome and powerful middle-aged man and the reciprocal pleasure that such a man has in the flattering attention of a pretty young girl--these totally mutual and consensual instincts that are built into the human psyche, whether one likes it or not--have created a tempest in the United States that could lead to a constitutional crisis.
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