From jajayo@bu.edu Sun Apr 29 17:03:57 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3U03t9109882 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:03:55 -0700 Received: from acs5.bu.edu (acs5.bu.edu [128.197.153.50]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f3U03tF01139 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:03:55 -0700 Received: from localhost (jajayo@localhost) by acs5.bu.edu ((8.9.3.buoit.v1.0.ACS)/) with ESMTP id UAA252022 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:03:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:03:53 -0400 (EDT) From: james jayo To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Beerbohm, Stoppard, Carson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > BTW, has anyone yet suggested that Stoppard's conceit of the > old Housman meeting the young Housman may owe something to > Max Beerbohm's wonderful caricature sequence of old writers > meeting their younger selves? No one's suggested it as far as I know. Stoppard first used the device of young and old selves meeting one another in Travesties, where the old and young Henry and Cecily come together at the end of the play (though I don't think they interact). Travesties and Invention have a great deal in common. You might even call the latter a reprise of the former. Stoppard has worked in a lot of material from other plays: Travesties, Indian Ink, Arcadia. His methods are cyclical. About Carson saying kai ... kai meant either/or, David Lupher asks > Have I misunderstood something here? No, I think Carson has, but her metaphor of daytime for wordusage is pleasantly arresting. Best, ~James .