Tom Stoppard, a Pynchon fave. Happy 80th.

[Mark Kohut]

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity---Tom Stoppard

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> On Jul 3, 2017, at 3:07 PM, philip goode <phigoode at gmail.com> wrote:
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> “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?”
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> Thanks Mark for the heads up.  Long days and happy nights to TS!
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>> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> National Theatre‏Verified account @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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