I ate the wind

• I hate → cf. Hamlet 3.2.99: “I hate the heir”
  • Other references to Shakespeare’s tragedies nearby: → moor before the tomb, cousin charmian

• I ate the wind: cf. W. B. Yeats description of Maud Gonne: “Hollow of cheek as though it drank the air”.

• I ate the wind: in Vico’s 1st Age, mute religious acts constitute language

• I ate the wind: I was so poor that I had nothing to eat but the wind