disjoint


 

The word 'disjoint' collocates with frame in both of its occurrences: 

 

Ham.1.2.20     Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,


Mac.3.2.16    But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,

 

It is tempting to push the comparison a little further. The speakers are Claudius and Macbeth, the murderers who have through their actions disjointed the frame of things. It may not be accidental that the two characters also share the phrase "new-born babe."


18 September 1999

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