Tom Stoppard, a Pynchon fave. Happy 80th.

[David Morris]

I love both quotes. I've never read Tom Stoppard.  I think I need to fix
that.

David Morris

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 5:38 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Age is a very high price to pay for maturity---Tom Stoppard
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jul 3, 2017, at 3:07 PM, philip goode <phigoode at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> “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
>> <https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre/status/881811858893791232>
>> More
>>
>> 'I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of
>> contradicting myself.'--TS
>>
>>
>> had to laugh thinking of our plist subject's ambiguities, not least in
>> who says what.
>>
>
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