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From: James Butrica <jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Re: NOT disney classics

>"Myers, Jeffrey" wrote:
>
>> Seems to me, however, that classical literature has much more potential
>>than Shakespeare in this area.
>
>Indeed. Something Ovidian ... *Daphne Does Delphi*, perhaps?
>Of course, the "acting" might be a little wooden ... but
>what the heck, with Apollo* in the cast you'd be sure to
>have lots of oracular sex.
>
>John McMahon
>Le Moyne College
>
>*sparing this mild audience the suggestive epithet

And it's bound to garner critical laurels. (Not to mention the use that
could be made of her father's highly suggestive name, in Ovid's version at
least.)

James Lawrence Peter Butrica
Department of Classics
The Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland  A1C 5S7
(709) 737-7914 


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