Exams must have been easier wherever she went than at Columbia.
But hopefully someone pointed out to her that the Brecht/Weill is based on
John Gay's Beggar's Opera, which he wrote when Fielding was past caring.
Tho there are broad plot similarities from one rogue book to another.
Mark
At 01:46 PM 4/21/2005, you wrote:
> > Reminds me of something I could have read only in graduate school, Henry
> > Fielding's "Jonathan Wild," l'histoire of a highwayman and whoremonger,
> > who like Lambert goes to the gallows, though his behavior on way to same
> > I've either forgotten or is unrecorded. But Wilde, semi-literate while
> > fancying himself the Great Gentleman, and therefore ever the passionate
> > letter-writer, commits howling misspellings such as referring to one of
> > his girlfriends as "adwhorable."
>
>That's something else again, Ken, and nothing whatsoever to with anyone I've
>mentioned.
>
>My American ex-fiancée got through her 18thC Phid exam by playing +The
>Threepenny Opera+ on the way to the exam hall on her car cassette system.
>
>The Brecht/Weill version -- That Whorehouse That We Once Called Home -- is
>easily better than the Fielding original.
>
>Blind John.
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