Showing posts with label wind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wind. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2009

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2

I am but mad north-north-west*; when the wind** is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

* This is where the film got its title, as I noted here
* The foehn wind is thought to increase incidents of migraine and psychosis in the alpine European countries, and is taken into account as a mitigating circumstance in criminal trials in Switzerland - possibly in Germany (Eva?) also.