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Joe Biden’s Theater Moment: Quoting Sophocles/Seamus Heaney
Posted by: FasterTheater 12:40 am EDT 08/21/20

That lend that ends "And hope and history rhyme” is from Seamus Heaney's verse version of Sophocles' "Philoctetes"
Link Joe Biden’s Theater Moment: Quoting Sophocles/Seamus Heaney in His 2020 Democratic Convention Speech
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re: Joe Biden’s Theater Moment: Quoting Sophocles/Seamus Heaney
Posted by: mikem 10:31 am EDT 08/21/20
In reply to: Joe Biden’s Theater Moment: Quoting Sophocles/Seamus Heaney - FasterTheater 12:40 am EDT 08/21/20

My learning moment last night was that Heaney is pronounced, "Hee-nee." I always thought it was "Hay-nee" (and I noticed Chris Cuomo on CNN said Hay-nee later last night, so it's not just me!).
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"But *I* was going to quote Kierkegaard!" –Trump
Last Edit: MockingbirdGirl 10:38 am EDT 08/21/20
Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 10:27 am EDT 08/21/20
In reply to: Joe Biden’s Theater Moment: Quoting Sophocles/Seamus Heaney - FasterTheater 12:40 am EDT 08/21/20

Only he pronounced it Kier Keegaard. ;)
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Brilliant!
Posted by: showtunetrivia 11:18 am EDT 08/21/20
In reply to: "But *I* was going to quote Kierkegaard!" –Trump - MockingbirdGirl 10:27 am EDT 08/21/20

Nearly snarfed my covfefe...

Laura
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re: Brilliant!
Posted by: Chromolume 08:55 pm EDT 08/21/20
In reply to: Brilliant! - showtunetrivia 11:18 am EDT 08/21/20

I had no idea Kierkegaard wrote "man woman person camera TV"...wow! ;-)
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If Trump wants to quote an autocrat ...
Posted by: WaymanWong 03:37 pm EDT 08/21/20
In reply to: Brilliant! - showtunetrivia 11:18 am EDT 08/21/20

he could choose a lyric from ''A Puzzlement'' from ''The King and I,'' a musical about the ruler of ''Thigh-land.''
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The pluck of the Irish: Another writer referenced at the Democratic Convention
Posted by: WaymanWong 02:53 am EDT 08/21/20
In reply to: Joe Biden’s Theater Moment: Quoting Sophocles/Seamus Heaney - FasterTheater 12:40 am EDT 08/21/20

Brayden Harrington, a boy who stutters, says Joe Biden dealt with stuttering by reciting poems by W.B. Yeats (playwright & Abbey founder).
Link 13-year-old Brayden Harrington speaks at Democratic National Convention
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re: The pluck of the Irish: Another writer referenced at the Democratic Convention
Posted by: FasterTheater 07:55 am EDT 08/21/20
In reply to: The pluck of the Irish: Another writer referenced at the Democratic Convention - WaymanWong 02:53 am EDT 08/21/20

Wow, good find! i have to add that.
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