Can't help you, love - don't know how these things pan out.
t uncharitable bitch
Dear Person Who Shall Remain Nameless,
If your comment to my fanfic is going to begin: "One of the great problems i have of being so very very well read is..." then it would behove you to ensure that your criticism hinges upon a sound knowledge of the whole soliloquy from which my title is lifted, and a careful consideration of how it might pertain to the story, rather than simply having recognised "the quote" [sic], by which you mean the clause that precedes the phrase I've used for my title.*
Also? If you're going to set yourself up as this guru of literary knowledge in your opening line, and talk down to dumb little me, it might bolster your position of authority if you actually, you know, use capital letters, commas, full stops and apostrophes in the traditional fashion. Not to mention grammar. Just a thought.
t /bitch
*said title does not demand intimate knowledge of the soliloquy, incidentally - it's perfectly effective on a literal level as related to events in the story, but if you happen to know the context then it also works as a red herring that implies (as the story initially does) that one of the characters is dead; and if you know the soliloquy, then there are a SHITLOAD of resonances between what Hamlet's concerns are, and what my characters' concerns are. It's not that she doesn't have a point, though - if you have a shallow knowledge of the source of the quotation, then it implies that character X is dead. (Which is what the narrative also implies.) But this? Is not an unfortunate side effect of her being "so very very well read' and me being an ignorant slob with a bumper book of quotations. It's a side effect of her being less well read than she seems to think. And it's an intentional side effect. So it would be a good idea for her to not bombard me with half a dozen well-meaning but really rather impolite comments about the inadequacy of my title.