tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835596563370939343.post6566618477428912606..comments2023-11-03T05:33:20.361-07:00Comments on ATTACK OF THE THEATER PERSON: New Day #28Marc Acitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308790905794774874noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835596563370939343.post-46526546165809911872008-08-21T21:56:00.000-07:002008-08-21T21:56:00.000-07:00Just finished Peter Pan (having performed an adapt...Just finished Peter Pan (having performed an adapted version integrating Barrie's brilliant stage directions as narrations into the performance) and loved it. From Barrie's script I draw one of the most beautiful comments I've ever read, and one that touches me as an actor and reader:<BR/><BR/>All the characters, whether grown-ups or babes, must wear a child's outlook on life as their only important adornment. If they cannot help being funny they are begged to go away. A good motto for all would be 'The little less, and how much it is.'<BR/><BR/>An absolutely fascinating statement, so simple yet extraordinary in its eloquence.Brian Rangellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13404487022022190989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835596563370939343.post-79622215746949743092008-01-26T00:24:00.000-08:002008-01-26T00:24:00.000-08:00Answers, in order:Pride and Prejudice (Austen)Anna...Answers, in order:<BR/><BR/>Pride and Prejudice (Austen)<BR/>Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)<BR/>One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)<BR/>Peter Pan (Barrie)<BR/>Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)<BR/>Metamorphosis (Kafka)<BR/>The Go-Between (Hartley)<BR/>The Hobbit (Tolkien)Marc Acitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05308790905794774874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835596563370939343.post-44697691254669358312008-01-25T23:48:00.000-08:002008-01-25T23:48:00.000-08:00Hmmm...So I looked at the first line of my memoir:...Hmmm...<BR/><BR/>So I looked at the first line of my memoir:<BR/><BR/>"On Mother’s Day, my life began its latest transformation." I like it. Thanks.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the adventure, Mark!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835596563370939343.post-62856318044212894942008-01-25T21:07:00.000-08:002008-01-25T21:07:00.000-08:00Of all people, Dick Francis came up with an openin...Of all people, Dick Francis came up with an opening line I adore - "He stood on the outside of disaster, looking in." Caught me right up.Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15073658261122703742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835596563370939343.post-4608525636108923772008-01-25T16:48:00.000-08:002008-01-25T16:48:00.000-08:00eeeeeeek! This is The Most Frustrating Game, Ever...eeeeeeek! This is The Most Frustrating Game, Ever. I recognized 3 of the 8. Now I am salivating to know what the other 5 were. <BR/><BR/>How can you give so many fantastic openers and then not identify them? Same with the first comment, right up there above me.<BR/><BR/>So cruel. Tease.french panichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08387613398913818918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835596563370939343.post-86767500024947913312008-01-25T06:42:00.000-08:002008-01-25T06:42:00.000-08:00Agreed on the importance of a good first line, and...Agreed on the importance of a good first line, and page. Here's a few from my (also small) collection:<BR/><BR/>“Waiter,” I said, in an exuberant mood, “I have a perfect life, but I don’t have a knife.”<BR/><BR/>Think of someone you know who is joyfully jobless.<BR/><BR/>First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com