How I wish I'd seen his Housman! And his Guildenstern, his Lear, his Prospero. I am greatly fortunate to have seen him in Travesties. I remember his throwing off sixty years as lightly as a dressing gown. Glorious.
I've only seen him in films, but I loved him in them.
I never saw him onstage, either: I just wish I had. I imprinted on him as Stephen Falken in WarGames (1983). I imagined his voice, reading The Invention of Love.
I feel like the timing is terrible, but I just wandered by to say that, four years after the fact I suppose, I stumbled across this story (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2007/20071029/teinds-f.shtml), and just adore it.
I feel like the timing is terrible, but I just wandered by to say that, four years after the fact I suppose, I stumbled across this story, and just adore it.
The timing is not terrible at all: this is the best news I've received all day. Thank you. I am very glad.
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A.E. Housman had better meet him at the Styx.
Amen.
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If I had slept last night, I could be trying to turn that into a poem . . .
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Twould make a good poem, I think. I hope you can find sleep tonight, and perhaps that poem as well, sometime.
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How I wish I'd seen his Housman! And his Guildenstern, his Lear, his Prospero. I am greatly fortunate to have seen him in Travesties. I remember his throwing off sixty years as lightly as a dressing gown. Glorious.
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You should write about him. I've only read the play.
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I never saw him onstage, either: I just wish I had. I imprinted on him as Stephen Falken in WarGames (1983). I imagined his voice, reading The Invention of Love.
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So, thank you for writing it. It's beautiful.
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The timing is not terrible at all: this is the best news I've received all day. Thank you. I am very glad.