Tom Stoppard, a Pynchon fave. Happy 80th.

[John Bailey]

You can find the full text of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern online just
by googling it and "script". It's probably the best entry point (and a
bloody funny read).

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 8:44 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Theatre‏Verified account @NationalTheatre  4h4 hours ago
>>> 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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