Stoppard had a pretty definitive politics (staunch, classical conservatism), but his work explored alternating philosophies with curiosity and without prejudice. You got the sense that he wrote because he needed to know. And he was a born entertainer, a vaudevillian. A miracle of art.

Well when you put it that way 🤣

It’s a crime

bluestone from Wales, like that used in the outer ring of Stonehenge (ethically sourced, not a piece of a henge [my dad is a retired geologist])