Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Theatre's Appeal

He had been wondering why persons ... bothered to go to plays at all, when every day at Whitehall provided more spectacle - now he sensed that they did so because the stories in the theatre were simple, and arrived at fixed conclusions after an hour or two.
Daniel Waterhouse muses to himself,
in Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (239)

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