Re: RAT Famous Playwrights, Mostly Dead

[NOMADMONAD@aol.com]

Mary Mary Quite Contrary is trying to read her Wilder, but she cannot suspend 
her disbelief. Only GoodyTwoShoes and the Schoolmarm still have their nose in 
the book.  The rest of the class is giggling and throwing spitballs now.   
Mary would become a big fat tattle-tell but that would be so cliché.  

Poor little Mary Mary Quite Contrary.

At 05:37 AM 1/19/00 -0800, Audie McCall wrote:
>Class Clown as Budding Artiste?  Wow!  Incisive. 
>Groundbreaking.
>
>At least Wilder never sunk to such cliche.
>
>--- NOMADMONAD@aol.com wrote:
>> The Great American Playwright of the next century is
>> in a junior high class 
>> right now.  
>> 
>> While GoodyTwoShoes is reciting the lines to Our
>> Town out loud to the class, 
>> the Great American Playwright has torn a quarter
>> page from his text and put 
>> it into his mouth.  Not to eat it, but to form it
>> into a spitball.
>> 
>> The spitball is the first great play by the Great
>> American Playwright.  
>> 
>> The Our Town text in hands of the Great American
>> Playwright provides an 
>> unfathomable supply of spitballs. The spitball is
>> thrown at everyone except 
>> GoodyTwoShoes and the Schoolmarm.  But soon the
>> entire classroom has become 
>> the audience of the spitball.
>> 
>> The Schoolmarm senses the disruption and interrupts
>> GoodyTwoShoes recitation. 
>>  "Class!  Pay attention!"   She glares threateningly
>> at the Great American 
>> Playwright.  She knows the cause of the disruption. 
>> She also knows it's not 
>> in her control.
>>