This is a great line, and descriptive of a type of characterisation I recognised instantly, but have never quite thought about that way before. I'd be very satisfied if I were ever to get a comment like that.

Thank you! I might still have been thinking about archetypes from One Man, Two Guvnors. That show is a perfect commedia dell' arte, but it works even if you've never heard of Arlecchino or Pantalone in your life—and if you do recognize the characters, you can appreciate them down to their zany finger-ends all the more.

That's an excellent photograph. Thanks for sharing it.

You're welcome. Let's hear it for Ashkenazi genetics.