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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-11-29 11:29 pm
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Pro lásku Boží započatou

Ivan Jirous, poet-dissident and manager of the Plastic People of the Universe. It is entirely possible I would not have known of his existence if I had not seen Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at the Huntington Theatre in 2008. But I fell in love with the play, so I tracked down a copy of Ach to státu hanobení (1976) and now I'm sorry he's gone. If he did not exist, it really would have been necessary for Stoppard to invent him.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-11-30 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I can think of worse epitaphs.

Well, I'm not sure I'd want to be a Stoppard character. Dying in a fire and being A.E. Housman: not really things I want to have happen to me.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-11-30 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm not sure I'd want to be a Stoppard character. Dying in a fire and being A.E. Housman: not really things I want to have happen to me.

Good heavens. I'd not want you to be a Stoppard character, either. I'd not much like to be one, myself.
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