Re: RAT Word

[Bobby Mrozek <bby@earthlink.net>]

Just a few things:

Paper is a _Chinese_ thing. Papyrus and paper are not the same thing.

The Dead Sea Scrolls (a catalog from the library of an ancient Hebrew 
monastery) are made of copper, not paper, with the text pressed into the 
thin metal sheeting.  

The most plentiful substance on earth are gasses, oxygen, hydrogen, 
helium and so on. Two thirds of the earth's mass by weight (including 
all living creatures) are made of oxygen (iron oxide=steel, silicon 
oxide=glass, dihydrogen oxide=water, beer, an so on) -- a good enough 
reason in itself to quite smoking. 

Your lit prof was right about Ulysses.

Incidentally, the definative Joyce-based theatre piece, and the best 
theatre I've ever seen (I've seen about 500 plays so far) was by a group 
from Mexico City called "Carta al Artista Adolescente." Lucky for us in 
the US, it toured the US/Canada in the spring/summer of 1995 with the 
premiere of the English language version at Theatre Project in 
Baltimore, then to Chigago's Bailiwick Rep, Montreal's Festival of the 
Americas, and New York's La Mama ETC. The primary text source for this 
great work was "Portrait of an Artist..." but it also included stunning 
illusions to Ulysses. Martin Acosta wrote and directed, and the late 
great Alejandro Reyes played Steven Dedalus.