WRONG!

[andrewducker]

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[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Oh my! I want that!

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Erroneous pedantry FTL! A billion televisions can't be wrong, CP Scott to the contrary notwithstanding.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

If it was on television, it must be true!

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

Chamberlain We belong to a sort of secret society, the Order of Chaeronea, like the Sacred Band of Thebes. Actually, it's more like a discussion group. We discuss what we should call ourselves. 'Homosexuals' has been suggested.

AEH Homosexuals?

Chamberlain We aren't anything till there's a word for it.

AEH Homosexuals? Who is responsible for this barbarity?

Chamberlain What's wrong with it?

AEH It's half Greek and half Latin!

Chamberlain That sounds about right.

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love

[andrewducker]

I love Tom Stoppard! I've only seen one of his plays performed, but I'd love to see more.

[crm.livejournal.com]

Racist. :P

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

The Invention of Love is probably his best play, but it is also the hardest one to understand, because you kind of have to be up on your Victorians, academic politics, classics education, and trial of Oscar Wilde to get all the jokes -- and thus, it does not receive the popular acclaim of, say, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

That little excerpt happens just before the last scene -- a conversation between old, sad Oscar Wilde and old, sad A.E. Houseman -- that never fails to bring me to tears. Ah, sappy gay academics, what will the world do with us?

[andrewducker]

Oooh, I've also seen Ros and Guil - but only the movie.

Checking his bibliography, it turns out I've also seen Arcadia and The Real Thing, both of which were fantastic.

I must keep an eye out for more Stoppard coming to Edinburgh.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

I know at least one well known sf critic who had precisely that reaction.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

[andrewducker]

Fantastic! I'm stealing that for the next time I bump into a prescriptivist!

[cyprinella]

You can buy it here.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

That is hysterically funny!

[cybik.livejournal.com]

If you go to see Stoppard plays I will be there like a shot.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Likewise.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

I've only seen Travesties.

[avatar.livejournal.com]

I am adblocking that one.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for letting me know!

[zz]

well, that's just scheissballs.

[andrewducker]

What's the best way to do keep an eye out?

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Honestly I've no idea. I'm really rubbish at noticing when stuff is on!

[avatar.livejournal.com]

:)

It was more in response to Andy's compliment to it.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh! Rightie-o then!