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File:Peak drainage basin.jpg|link=Peak drainage basin|'''[[Peak drainage basin]]''' is the moment at which erosion of drainage basins reaches a rate greater than that at any time in the past and starts to decrease | |||
File:The Lord of the Danes.jpg|link=The Lord of the Danes|'''''[[The Lord of the Danes]]''''' is an epic Shakespearean play about a prince of Gondor (Hamlet) whose attempts to exorcise the ghost of his father lead to madness, betrayal, and murder. | File:The Lord of the Danes.jpg|link=The Lord of the Danes|'''''[[The Lord of the Danes]]''''' is an epic Shakespearean play about a prince of Gondor (Hamlet) whose attempts to exorcise the ghost of his father lead to madness, betrayal, and murder. | ||
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Revision as of 11:24, 20 January 2023
"Toba, or not Toba" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "geology scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Prince of Geologists, Act 3, Scene 1.
In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and catastrophe, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of the Toba supervolcano but acknowledging that the catastrophe theory might be overstated.
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Peak drainage basin is the moment at which erosion of drainage basins reaches a rate greater than that at any time in the past and starts to decrease
The Lord of the Danes is an epic Shakespearean play about a prince of Gondor (Hamlet) whose attempts to exorcise the ghost of his father lead to madness, betrayal, and murder.
Fiction cross-reference
- Crimes against geological constants
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Peak drainage basin
- The Lord of the Danes
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Post @ Twitter (13 December 2021)
- Toba catastrophe theory @ Wikipedia
- To be, or not to be @ Wikipedia