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Okay self, here's the plan: first you finish that design for mom's birthday, then you may read another BigBang story. After that you'll hang the laundry out to dry, while you either start working on those bookreports or continue fiddling for Big Bang. Mkay? Okay.
Let me get this out here first. A scene I want to share from 'Inherit The Wind', a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (1955). (saw the play -with Kevin Spacey- in 2009, finally finished reading the transcript last week;). It's an interpretation of the (in)famous Monkey Trial from 1925, when a schoolteacher was standing trial for teaching his class about The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
Teachers Bert Cates and Rachel Brown (daughter of the town's vicar) are discussing Bert's options with lawyer Henry Drummond. (M.H. Brady is his opponent)
Drummond: You murder a wife, it isn't nearly as bad as murdering an old wives' tale. Kill one of their fairy-tale notions, and they call down the wrath of God, Brady, and the state legislature.
Rachel: You make a joke out of everything.You seem to think it's all so funny!
Drummond: Lady, when you lose your power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.
Cates: Mr. Drummond, I can't laugh, I'm scared.
Drummond: Good. You'd be a damned fool if you weren't.
Rachel: You're supposed to be helping Bert, and every time you swear you make it worse for him.
Drummond: I'm sorry if I offend you. but I don't swear just for the hell of it. You see, I figure that language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we ought to use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands.
[Another point worthy of discussion; why are the men addressed with their last name, while Rachel has to do with her first name? Significant, I think, but let's not get into that right now and blame it on the era the play was written in. Grumble.]
Let me get this out here first. A scene I want to share from 'Inherit The Wind', a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (1955). (saw the play -with Kevin Spacey- in 2009, finally finished reading the transcript last week;). It's an interpretation of the (in)famous Monkey Trial from 1925, when a schoolteacher was standing trial for teaching his class about The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
Teachers Bert Cates and Rachel Brown (daughter of the town's vicar) are discussing Bert's options with lawyer Henry Drummond. (M.H. Brady is his opponent)
Drummond: You murder a wife, it isn't nearly as bad as murdering an old wives' tale. Kill one of their fairy-tale notions, and they call down the wrath of God, Brady, and the state legislature.
Rachel: You make a joke out of everything.You seem to think it's all so funny!
Drummond: Lady, when you lose your power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.
Cates: Mr. Drummond, I can't laugh, I'm scared.
Drummond: Good. You'd be a damned fool if you weren't.
Rachel: You're supposed to be helping Bert, and every time you swear you make it worse for him.
Drummond: I'm sorry if I offend you. but I don't swear just for the hell of it. You see, I figure that language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we ought to use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands.
[Another point worthy of discussion; why are the men addressed with their last name, while Rachel has to do with her first name? Significant, I think, but let's not get into that right now and blame it on the era the play was written in. Grumble.]
"Should the pope resign?"
Apr. 9th, 2010 09:32 pmRatzinger is the perfect pope" - says Richard Dawkins. I agree.
