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To: varmintman

I have a hard time believing that any one person could produce all of that.

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Surely you have met a driven genius or two in your lifetime.


17 posted on 09/12/2013 5:53:45 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: Bigg Red

I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand. — Ben Jonson

http://www.bartleby.com/348/authors/291.html

Unlike Shakespeare, Jonson was known as a slow, meticulous writer. After Shakespeare’s death, Jonson wrote: “I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand. [...] I loved the man and do honor his memory on this side of idolatry, as much as any: he was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.”

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/?date=2011/06/11


82 posted on 09/14/2013 1:08:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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