Tom Stoppard, a Pynchon fave. Happy 80th.

[jesse gooch]

Just went to a live broadcast of R & G from the Old Vic. Starred Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire. Very entertaining. The script really holds up.

> On Jul 3, 2017, at 6:59 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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