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Ianonabike
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Ianonabike
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Tom Stoppard has died.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? ”
“It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? ”
“It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
Ian H
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I recall a school production in the late 60s. We also mounted a production of Oh What a Lovely War around then. I think our head of geography, Geoff Shovelton was the driving force - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Shovelton
Ian H
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View: https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1995378407979552819
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Wonderful- and entirely characteristic- Tom Stoppard story.This is integrity. This is how we writers must roll if our work is to mean anything at all:
"Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?"
"No," Tom said, "BBC Radio."
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Ianonabike
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One more on Stoppard:
Pblakeney
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That’s already been covered.
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Ianonabike
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Thought I'd seen that somewhere...
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication." - Susan Sontag
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication." - Susan Sontag
The Crofted Crest
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progress is a comforting disease.
e.e. cummings
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Ian H
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The Enormous Room is Cummings' account of incarceration by the French during WW1. One of my favourite books.
briantrumpet
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Thanks - have downloaded a pdf for later digestion. Capital(s). And full-stops.