Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes:

“Hamlet, Questions, & Ourselves” is about the questions—kind, life-enhancing—that you’re longing to know of and to ask yourself. They’re questions that are a means of a person’s understanding oneself and—through honesty about them—liking oneself increasingly and truly. Through this issue of TRO, you’ll also see that your questions are related to those in one of the great literary works of the world. Some of Aesthetic Realism’s magnificent comprehension of humanity and literature is here—in “Hamlet, Questions, & Ourselves,” the latest issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known!

The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins:

Dear Unknown Friends:

Here is the third part in our serialization of Hamlet and Questions, the lecture Eli Siegel gave on November 14, 1976. Are the questions present in a literary work like the questions in our own lives? Are they like our everyday questions and also our deep, bewildering questions, many of which we’ve not been able to articulate? That is what this important lecture is about.

In its first three sections, Mr. Siegel speaks of questions present in early scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

He explains that he is not, in this talk, dealing with the meaning of the play, or the self of its main character—whom he loved. Elsewhere he did speak and write often about Hamlet, always newly and with critical delight and power—and also passion, tenderness, often humor. In fact, as I see it, in all of literary criticism there is no greater dealing with a single work than Eli Siegel’s comprehension and explanation of Hamlet….Read more