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Fri Jan-13-06 09:03 PM
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| "I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity." |
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:05 PM
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| 1. He's a great playwright-- |
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We're reading Rough Crossing in my American Lit. class now. It's really quite funny.
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:09 PM
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| 3. Stoppard has a great mind, nearly verbal in the extreme, but if you... |
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stay right with him; he's a hoot :hi:
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:09 PM
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:15 PM
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| 4. a stoppard play really hinges upon the actors ability to inhabit... |
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their lines with metered poise & grace, not just a rapid fire delivery which is too often thought to be the treatment; but you are right = stoppard is spot-on :hi:
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:24 PM
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The only beginning is birth and the only end is death. If you can't count on that, what can you count on?
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:27 PM
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| 6. heehee, good one = "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship... |
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"and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." more Stoppard B-)
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:31 PM
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| 7. Growing old is mandatory |
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Edited on Fri Jan-13-06 09:32 PM by redwitch
growing UP is optional. :-) And I have no idea whatsoever who said that.
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:33 PM
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:32 PM
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| 8. I think $11.95 is a very high price to pay for a Stoppard collection |
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But no one ever quotes me on it!
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:36 PM
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| 10. you need a good yard/estate sale desperately... |
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but no worries, i'll quote you on that one all the same :thumbsup: his plays are easy to light, real sort of 'curtain goes up/curtain comes down' stuff
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:39 PM
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| 11. Naw, I've got a library in walking distance |
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I'd buy books to try and look smart, but I consider that ship to have already sailed. :D
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Fri Jan-13-06 09:46 PM
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| 12. whatever works, did see an autographed collection of Glenn Miller... |
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manuscripts at an estate sale once-though...that was cool; but i picked up their limited edition Petronius, Satyircon, instead, just "to try and look smart"...so i can relate
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Sun Jan-15-06 01:48 PM
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| 13. the spirit of jpgray made me kick it... |
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