It is funny, a bit gallow style, but there is an element that tickles the
sense of humor
Quatsch wird gelöscht, ohne gelesen zu werden
пора
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
הִשְׁתַּדֵּל הִזְדַּקֵּן
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:05 AM Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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:
Perhaps one day I’ll get to play Mr. Micawber in some kind of adaptation?
Written by…well who would write such a thing?
Why not a play, David - featuring the various actors over the years who are
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?
Someone who has a lifetime's knowledge of how actors talk about one another’s
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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