Tea Junkie
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AI will bleed us dry until it has no more use for us.
Why are we feeding it?
Why are we feeding it?
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A relatively minor work but Professional Foul (1977) take a funny sketch idea of confusing academic philosophy & football commentary, with the philosophers & the England team in the same hotel & constructs a proper play about civil liberties & the Czech regime around it
youtu.be/D5MYDrWGobg?...
youtu.be/D5MYDrWGobg?...
Play of the Week - Professional Foul (1977) by Tom Stoppard & Michael Lindsay-Hogg
YouTube video by Play For Forever
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November 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A relatively minor work but Professional Foul (1977) take a funny sketch idea of confusing academic philosophy & football commentary, with the philosophers & the England team in the same hotel & constructs a proper play about civil liberties & the Czech regime around it
youtu.be/D5MYDrWGobg?...
youtu.be/D5MYDrWGobg?...
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Becoming Tom Stoppard, and becoming English, and the ambiguity of having 'a pass, a press ticket' on belonging
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Becoming Tom Stoppard, and becoming English, and the ambiguity of having 'a pass, a press ticket' on belonging
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Born Czech as Tomáš Sträussler in Zlin in 1937, Stoppard's family escaped to Singapore on the day the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, then to British India.
Few truly doubt that the refugee boy became English: the themes of identity & language, unfreedom and liberty resonate throughout his work.
Few truly doubt that the refugee boy became English: the themes of identity & language, unfreedom and liberty resonate throughout his work.
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Born Czech as Tomáš Sträussler in Zlin in 1937, Stoppard's family escaped to Singapore on the day the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, then to British India.
Few truly doubt that the refugee boy became English: the themes of identity & language, unfreedom and liberty resonate throughout his work.
Few truly doubt that the refugee boy became English: the themes of identity & language, unfreedom and liberty resonate throughout his work.
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Final scene of Leopoldstadt lightly mocks/caricatures Leo, the one family member to escaped to England at 8 very much assimilated into a Stoppard-like young Englishman. “You live as if without history, as if you throw no shadow behind you", his cousin Nathan, the one to survive Auschwitz tells him.
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Final scene of Leopoldstadt lightly mocks/caricatures Leo, the one family member to escaped to England at 8 very much assimilated into a Stoppard-like young Englishman. “You live as if without history, as if you throw no shadow behind you", his cousin Nathan, the one to survive Auschwitz tells him.
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An old country lane which is now nothing but a spacious field boundary.
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
An old country lane which is now nothing but a spacious field boundary.