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| Joe Biden’s Theater Moment: Quoting Sophocles/Seamus Heaney | |
| Posted by: FasterTheater 12:40 am EDT 08/21/20 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Wow, good find! i have to add that. | |
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