Davidson John. - Planet Word

Chapter 5

True Wit is Nature to advantage dressd, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Yale University Press, 1961

What, old dad dead? Cyril Tourneur, The Revengers Tragedy, Nick Hern Books, 1996

Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve into a dew! William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1:2, 129130, Penguin Classics, 2007

One might have expected natural selection Professor Steven Pinker, Toward a Consilient Study of Literature, Philosophy and Literature, volume 31, Number 1, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

When you talk about it, you think about it in the back of your head Ernie Dingo, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

In the time before time began Bunjil The Gariwerd Creation Story pamphlet

Its both a rhyme and rhythm, and the rhythm is the heartbeat Ernie Dingo, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven Richmond Lattimore, The Odyssey of Homer, Harper Collins, 1965, reissued by HarperPerennial 1991, book I, lines 110, p. 27

So they sang, in sweet utterance, and the heart within me desired to listen ibid., book XII, lines 1923, p. 190

Sing, Goddess, Achilles rage Professor Stanley Lombardo, The Iliad, Hackett Publishing Company, 1997, book I, lines 16

in which the whole plot is done backwards and the story winds up in futility and unhappiness Professor William Foster-Harris, The Basic Patterns of Plot, University of Oklahoma Press, new edition,1981

Plots of the body; plots of the mind Ronald Tobias, 20 Master Plots and How to Build Them, Walking Stick Press, March 2003

Nobody knows anything William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Futura Publications, 1990

Nobody not now, not ever knows the least goddamn thing about what is or isnt going to work at the box office ibid.

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it William Goldman, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

I was walking on 47th Street in New York the diamond district ibid.

Is it safe? William Goldman, Marathon Man, Paramount Pictures, 1976

Theres no logic to it William Goldman, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

disappeared off with the Indians ibid.

But who knows, if wed had McQueen, if it would have been different ibid.

When I tried to sell the movie ibid.

Im gonna say something stupid ibid.

just to let themselves go and swim into it ibid.

I didnt know Joyce, I didnt know his wife Nora David Norris, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

Few writers have had more grace and splendour in the way they write ibid.

Good days work, Joyce? said Budgen ibid.

Every kind of Dublin saying, like the sock whiskey for sore legs, for instance, is in it ibid.

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish James Joyce, Ulysses, Penguin Classics, new edition, 2000

My soul frets in the shadow of his language James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, new edition, May 1992

I have no language now, Sheila David Norris, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

We tend to be a bit subversive ibid.

I would say the greatness of Yeats Declan Kiberd, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

And for me thats the magnificence of Yeats ibid.

We wouldnt be here today in a Senate of an independent Ireland ibid.

I have met them at close of day W.B. Yeats, Easter, 1916 WB Yeats Selected Poems, Penguin Classics, reissued 2000

Sure, but you have to tell us a story in return Declan Kiberd, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

You make your destitution sumptuous ibid.

In the last ditch, all we can do is sing Samuel Becket as quoted by Barry McGovern, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

Absolutely terrifying Apart from it being so famous Simon Russell Beale, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

I get the sense that it was a radical exploration of a single human soul ibid.

It really does yield extraordinary riches ibid.

Utterly terrifying, poleaxing with fear David Tennant, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

I saw him at that very formative age ibid.

like keeping goal for Scotland ibid.

And you think, please Lord, let me just remember the lines ibid.

I can be bounded in a nutshell William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 2:2, 2546, Penguin Classics, new edition, January 2007

You just get the sense that he hasnt slept for days David Tennant, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

honey-heavy dew of slumber William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1:1, 230, Wordsworth Editions, 1992

sore labours bath William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 2:2, 356, Penguin Classics, new edition, 2007

Alas poor Yorick, I knew him William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 5:1, 185, Penguin Classics, new edition, 2007

I think the Yorick moment is much more specific David Tennant, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

The first few performances holding a real human head ibid.

like it was some big oak tree Mark Rylance, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

Its you who are alive now. ibid.

In Pittsburgh there was a little old lady ibid.

Till then, sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise William Shakespeare, Hamlet 1:2, 2567, Penguin Classics, new edition, January 2007

I remember performing the play out at Broadmoor special hospital Mark Rylance, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

To be, or not to be, that is the question William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3:1, 5688 Penguin Classics, new edition, January 2007

I think poetry is to be distinguished always from prose. Christopher Ricks and Stephen Fry, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues,Collected Poems, Faber & Faber, Copyright 1976, 1991, 2007 The Estate of W. H. Auden

Tragically in my life, in every film Ive ever done Richard Curtis, Frys Planet Word, BBC 2011

Every day I think of that line from The Boxer ibid.

If you pick up a poem for the first time you have to piece it together ibid.

I think there was a six-month period in which I understood it ibid.

music is auditory cheesecake Professor Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works, Penguin Allen Lane, 1998

A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play Mars, DArcy Masius Benton & Bowles, 1965

Now hands that do dishes with mild green Fairy Liquid Fairy Liquid advertising campaign, 1961

Just do it Nike, Wieden and Kennedy, 1988

Most excellent and proved DentifriceLondon Gazette