And we'd already have achieved it if everyone was as enlightened as me

[sovay]

If this spring were not this spring, I would have noticed sooner that today is Denholm Elliott's centenary and done something about it, but instead I coincidentally read the script of a play in which he originated a part—I had been looking for it for some time, having come to despair of ever seeing a production—and that will have to do. Have the cast of Twelfth Night of Stalag VIII-B, Elliott's Viola at center.

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[ashlyme]

Whoa! His eyes are *unmistakeable*, even on a smartphone screen. It might have been worth being a POW just to watch this.

[sovay]

It might have been worth being a POW just to watch this.

I'm so glad there are even photographs.

(But if I can survive the experience, it's on the time machine list. I'll pick you up on the way.)

[selkie]

What are we meant to do about our noses, prostheses? Bitte erschießen Sie uns nicht, wir sind Touristinnen?

[sovay]

Bitte erschießen Sie uns nicht, wir sind Touristinnen?

You want to worry about profiles first or genders?

[selkie]

Gen’lethem, I have had about a sixth of a cocktail, we are all lucky I can kind of type. I considered Touristinnenen, which covers all the bases, but it sounds drunker than I am. We’d just grab the gender of the day from the racks the Breslau opera sent. You’d look amazing in the velvet suits they gave to the knickerbocker parts.