David,
While appreciating your theater humor, I on the other hand I've been
rereading the British historian, Max Hasting's /Retribution. /He writes
on page 32 (and for old time's sake you may recall that Esperanza
desperately hated the Gurkhas) "a British brigade commander in Burma
once declined to accept a report from the 4/1st Gurkhas about the
proximity of 'Nips.' Their colonel, Derek Horsford, dispatched a patrol
to gather evidence. Next day, Horsford left three Japanese heads, hung
for convenience on a string, beside his commander's desk. The brigadier
said: 'Never do that again. Next time, I'll take your word for it.'"
Might just be my Marine Corps training, but I thought that was funny. :-)
Lawrence
On 8/12/2020 2:15 PM, david ritchie wrote:
On Aug 12, 2020, at 9:12 AM, epostboxx@xxxxxxxx wrote:Someone who has a lifetime's knowledge of how actors talk about one another’s
Perhaps one day I’ll get to play Mr. Micawber in some kind of adaptation?Why not a play, David - featuring the various actors over the years who are
Written by…well who would write such a thing?
somehow related to Micawber (you could do worse than to start with the
collection mentioned in the Wikipedia article), and yourself as some sort of
Übermicawber playing Master of Ceremonies?
work could write this. I have come late to their world, but I do enjoy the
anecdotes. In a book about London’s theaters I read recently of someone who
interrupted a performance to quip, “Don’t laugh too loudly, dear, the
building’s old.”
David Ritchie,
not burning bibles in
Portland,
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