Tom Stoppard, a Pynchon fave. Happy 80th.

[philip goode]

“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their
arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The
procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But
there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The
missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again
in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once
more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their
time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been
hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a
corkscrew?”

Thanks Mark for the heads up.  Long days and happy nights to TS!

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> *National Theatre*‏Verified account @NationalTheatre
> <https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre>  4h4 hours ago
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> 'I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of
> contradicting myself.'--TS
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> had to laugh thinking of our plist subject's ambiguities, not least in who
> says what.
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