"cryselephantine" - what a fascinating word.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> didn't read it all, but seems quite accurate.
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:55 PM, David Bircumshaw <
> [log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > There's a sad account of god calling at:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/06/09/080609crbo_books_menand
> >
> > I hope he didn't shout at you.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2008/6/5 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> > > No, really. I do believe those little green men are about to land any
> > > second now. Oh, look, there's god outside the window calling.
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:01 PM, David Bircumshaw
> > > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >> Galaxy Quest is quite funny, especially the first time you see it. I
> > >> take it you do realise science-fiction isn't really about the future?
> > >>
> > >> 2008/6/5 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> > >>> that should be the "commercial" as opposed to professional.
> > >>>
> > >>> re:Patrick Stewart
> > >>>
> > >>> I watched Galaxy Quest last night and all those sad nerds going to
> see
> > >>> PS. I wonder what they thought they were going to see. Man, where are
> > >>> the Vulcans?
> > >>>
> > >>> Sadly, I watched a ST variant during the week, and I kept calling the
> > >>> Klingons, Vulcans. I'm handing my geek credentials in now.
> > >>>
> > >>> Roger
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >>>> Very little Shakespeare is played out on the professional west-end
> > >>>> stage these days. Most of it is in the Shakespearean churches.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Mark Weiss <
> [log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >>>>> Roger: This is silly. Shakespeare is performed on the profesional
> > stage in
> > >>>>> the US all the time. Two years ago I saw a wonderful production of
> As
> > You
> > >>>>> Like It in Tucson. There are sold out summer Shakespeare festivals
> in
> > >>>>> Oregon, New York, and Connecticut that I'm aware of. When I was a
> > teenager a
> > >>>>> complete cycle of the history plays was done at a major downtown
> > theater in
> > >>>>> NY. Lear was done on Broadway last year.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> The ways of the censor tend to be unpredictable, perhaps because
> > >>>>> unpredictability is such a potent weapon.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Mark
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> At 05:40 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> one swallow a summer does not make.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Mark Weiss <
> [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >>>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>> > Right now the hottest ticket on Broadway is MacBeth, with
> Patrick
> > >>>>>> > Stewart in
> > >>>>>> > the title role. The run is sold out--even the scalpers are at a
> > loss.
> > >>>>>> >
> > >>>>>> > Mark
> > >>>>>> >
> > >>>>>> >
> > >>>>>> > At 12:47 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
> > >>>>>> >>
> > >>>>>> >> Those were the days - the Lord Chamberlain (member of the Royal
> > >>>>>> >> Household) and his malign influence on the British Theatre. In
> > another
> > >>>>>> >> email list, a long time ago, I mooted the theory that
> > shakespeare's
> > >>>>>> >> continuing popularity down the ages was due in part to the
> Bard's
> > >>>>>> >> acceptability before the LC. My logic, fwiw, ran thus: you want
> > to put
> > >>>>>> >> on a play and in those days, the least likeliest plays to get
> > banned
> > >>>>>> >> were Shakespeares. So, you play safe, put on the Bard. Until
> the
> > 60s,
> > >>>>>> >> when the LC threw away his blue pencil. Nowadays, S hardly
> > appears on
> > >>>>>> >> the commercial stage.
> > >>>>>> >>
> > >>>>>> >> American bannings are two a penny: their school libraries have
> > >>>>>> >> committees which are battle-grounds for the inclusion/exclusion
> > of
> > >>>>>> >> books. Harry Potter is a notorious example of this - the poor,
> > deluded
> > >>>>>> >> fundies trying to stave off the influence of the heathen
> (WTF?).
> > There
> > >>>>>> >> are lists on line of books that have been banned in the US. Are
> > there
> > >>>>>> >> any for the UK?
> > >>>>>> >>
> > >>>>>> >> Roger
> > >>>>>> >>
> > >>>>>> >> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Bircumshaw
> > >>>>>> >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >>>>>> >> > Lear was banned from performance between 1788-1820 when
> George
> > III
> > >>>>>> >> > was considered insane, and the link between stage and royalty
> > would
> > >>>>>> >> > be
> > >>>>>> >> > too close for official comfort. Contemporaneously with this
> Tom
> > Paine
> > >>>>>> >> > was also banned in England and, famously, Coleridge and
> > Wordsworth
> > >>>>>> >> > were watched for talking about Spinoza (Spy-noza)
> > >>>>>> >> >
> > >>>>>> >> > While 'Silas Marner' was banned in Anaheim CA in 1978 (?!)
> and
> > '1984'
> > >>>>>> >> > in Florida in 1981 because it was considered 'pro-communist'
> > (?)
> > >>>>>> >> >
> > >>>>>> >> >
> > >>>>>> >> >
> > >>>>>> >> > --
> > >>>>>> >> > David Bircumshaw
> > >>>>>> >> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > >>>>>> >> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> > >>>>>> >> > The Animal Subsides
> > http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > >>>>>> >> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> > >>>>>> >> >
> > >>>>>> >>
> > >>>>>> >>
> > >>>>>> >>
> > >>>>>> >> --
> > >>>>>> >> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > >>>>>> >> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> > >>>>>> >> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> > >>>>>> >> The Go-Betweens
> > >>>>>> >
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> --
> > >>>>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > >>>>>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> > >>>>>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> > >>>>>> The Go-Betweens
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > >>>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> > >>>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> > >>>> The Go-Betweens
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > >>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> > >>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> > >>> The Go-Betweens
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> David Bircumshaw
> > >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> > >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > >> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> > > She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> > > The Go-Betweens
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Anny Ballardini
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> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
> star!
>
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