The Hamlet Project

I have heard and read this line many many times before but just now I read it in a way I’d never understood it before, which seems extraordinary given the obviousness of the idea. Always, I’d had the feeling that this was somehow spoken to tormenting demons or the morning itself – a request to be left alone to tell his story. But damned if it’s not a whole hell of a lot simpler. Polonius says something pretty similar in a subsequent scene. Just reorganized – let me be brief. In short – to sum up – to make a long story short:
I was poisoned in the ear.