a dead man in deptford

[rambert]

Reading a novel on the life of Christopher Marlowe. The secret, as with any life, is not letting knowledge of its end ruin your joy at the events in progress. Also, FYI: BBQ & yerba tea give you a wicked case of the farts.    bit.ly/akLYGN

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[myonephonecall]

that's the joke i make every time someone turns on one of those 6k "i shouldn't be alive" "somehow i lived" "i survived" "i can't believe i'm still here" "darwin award runner up" cable shows, ha ("I don't want to ruin the ending for you, but...").

Also, FYI: TMI?.

Christopher Marlowe appears in the film as the master playwright whom the characters within the film consider the greatest English dramatist of that time - this is accurate, yet also humorous, since everyone in the film's audience knows what will eventually happen to Shakespeare. Marlowe gives Shakespeare a plot for his next play, "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" ("Romeo is Italian...always in and out of love...until he meets...Ethel. The daughter of his enemy! His best friend is killed in a duel by Ethel's brother or something. His name is Mercutio.") Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is quoted repeatedly: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/ And burned the topless towers of Ilium?"

[rambert]

See? It never gets old.

Burgess' novel held my interest better than 'Shakespeare in Love.' TMI? I'll take fart talk over 'the film version.'

for perspective

[rambert]

FYI: THIS is TMI http://bit.ly/dB7iPJ