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Midnight Writer

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14. Re-reading the plays of George Bernard Shaw.

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Jun 9, 2024, 12:55 PM

Jun 2024

I first read the plays when I was in grade school and was totally enthralled.

Read them all again in my forties, and still impressed.

Lately been thinking about them and all the quotable lines of wisdom, so I started in again, now in my seventies.

I guess this is why they call them classics.

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