"Hung" not "hanged" in epigraph to Kierkegaard's "Philosophical Fragments": Curious that Howard V. Hong crafted "Better well hung than ill wed" from "Gut gehÃĪngt ist besser, als schlecht verheiratet" -- the Schlegel translation of Shakespeare's "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage" (12th Night, i scene 5). "Well hanged," or "well hang'd," would signify the original sense of the verb (in contrast to past tense "hung"). And yet "well hung" suggests also an implication re 'black' that occurs at least as early as the 1001 Nights, significant then in view of the hanging of the God on the Cross as refer'd to by SK in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, preface. Cf Philosophic Fragments, Princeton U Press, edition, 1936, rev'd 1962; p. 152). jpmills P.S. If Edna was in any way reluctant, I imagine Howard Hong proposed to his eventual fellow-translator and spouse: "Better Edna Hong than unwed."
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"Hung" not "hanged" in epigraph to Kierkegaard's "Philosophical Fragments":
Curious that Howard V. Hong crafted "Better well hung than ill wed" from "Gut gehÃĪngt ist besser, als schlecht verheiratet" -- the Schlegel translation of Shakespeare's "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage" (12th Night, i scene 5).
"Well hanged," or "well hang'd," would signify the original sense of the verb (in contrast to past tense "hung"). And yet "well hung" suggests also an implication re 'black' that occurs at least as early as the 1001 Nights, significant then in view of the hanging of the God on the Cross as refer'd to by SK in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, preface.
Cf Philosophic Fragments, Princeton U Press, edition, 1936, rev'd 1962; p. 152).
jpmills
P.S. If Edna was in any way reluctant, I imagine Howard Hong proposed to his eventual fellow-translator and spouse: "Better Edna Hong than unwed."
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