Oh, Mae West is tops, Judy - only formed a duo with W.C.F. in one
unfortunately inferior film, My Little Chickadee if my mem'ry serves me
well - once was enough. They were too different to collaborate or be
compared. Mae was a great singer, too. WC was more oblique. There's room in
my withered apricot for both...
mj
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But I am but a nameless sort of person
(A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Prince" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: How poetry is writ
> Glad for the tips, Martin, tho I grit my teeth to think of having to read
> the damned plays [mebbe they've been filmed and DVD'ed by now]. Somehow
> those squeaks and squeals of the Stooges are beyond wince-able. Yeah,
> Groucho but not his brothers [their mom was said to've been the Marx Bros
> humour-model]. I also think that Mae West, the writer as well as the
> performer of her writing, is dare I say "bosoms and shoulders" above
> Fields,
> whom I regarded as the 'straight man' of the duo.
> Anybody gonna apply for the postdoc post to Dublin/Belfast re researching
> Shak's connection to Ireland? [see SHAKSPER today for details]
>
> I could use a visa to the UK, maybe I'll apply.
>
> jbp
>
> 2009/4/4 Martin Walker <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> I don't really "dig" the Three Stooges either, Judy - either the Marx
>> bros
>> or W.C.Fields - of the talking comedians - are more to my taste. And
>> laurel
>> & Hardy, natch.
>> Stoppard has written at least one moving play: "The Invention of Love",
>> largely about A.E.Housman, and the Joyce/Tzara/Lenin play in limericks is
>> hilarious.
>> Ignotus Rex
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>> But I am but a nameless sort of person
>> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
>> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
>> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>>
>> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
>>
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