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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