Grumble, grumble. Hiama, you made me do more research. I am sorry to say that I am not familiar with Anthony.
HEY, DEB. IT'S YOUR TURN!
I am off to work! Later for me!
Sure you do, Deb. May I make a suggestion. Let's try multiple choice type responses.
A. I don't know the anecdote
B. I know it but can't think of it.
C. Sure. That's Willie the Shake
D. Don't know; Don't care
(Hmmm, trying to remember now the Buchner quote I was just reminded of, something along the lines of...
Captain: Beautiful sky.
Woyzeck: Yes, a beautiful gray sky, such as a man might put a nail in to hang himself.
Only that's not right, and not an imitation.
Gotta say, I admire you folks who can do the imitatin'.)
Patio,
Poetry is much easier to do, because it has form. Novels, letters, essays , etc. are difficult.
hiama's anecdote still has me buffaloed
Try Irish person -did the odd play
Eugene O'Neill? He's the only odd playwright that I can think of.....
forgot to add James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.
ACT ONE
<Curtains open to a bare stage, except for a single flagpole with a tattered U.N. flag flying at half mast. At its base sit GEORGE and TONY. TONY pulls off his boots and rubs his feet>
TONY: My feet hurt. What are we doing here?
GEORGE: We're waiting to attack.
TONY: Oh, I remember now. Why don't we attack, then?
GEORGE: We can't.
TONY: Why not?
GEORGE: Because we're waiting for Hans Blix.
TONY: I wish he'd come. My feet hurt.
Waiting for Godot! Beckett!
Hiama - you ain't Bernard Shaw? Pygmalion?
Hmmm - but I am sure she learned to spell, too....and is he Irish? I forget, drat and curse it...
beckett, that's beeyooteefull.
beckett were irish, but he fancied himself french, and wrote in their language.
damnit...I said Beckett...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
You was all right innit, it was Samule Beckett !
Can't a chap get some sleep around here without all this noise-ready for another ?
"If you call on Madame DLowan, my good friend, you will find a beautiful woman sitting at her ease by the corner of her fireplace. She will scarcely rise to receive you,--she only does that for forum guides, veterans, and administrators. She is very gracious, she possesses charm; she converses well, and likes to talk on many topics. There are many indications of a passionate nature about her; but she has, evidently, so many adorers that she cannot have a favorite..........?
Guess who ?
Another wild guess:
Madame Bovary by Flaubert
Very good guess and very close, it is a Madame that is the subject and the author was born around 20 years earlier than Flaubert
Was this Madame a famous French courtesan? Give us a country please.
France is the country of the author absolument
