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Article: The Branagh-Bardic Express: gleaming Pullman cars and cattle-trucks
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 12, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In one of her stand-up routines Victoria Wood addressed the
irritating problem of marginal doodles, particularly in library
books, where the reader suddenly finds herself in the company of a
third party: "I mean," she explains, "it's a bit disconcerting to
flick through a copy of Hamlet to find `This happened to me'
scrawled all over Act Four." It's a good joke (it made me laugh
anyway) but it rather depends on an assumption that the incidents
in Hamlet are so detached from library-users' experiences that the
comparison is simply mad or impertinent. And it's true that,
however ghastly our own family gatherings turn out to be, most of
us are unlikely to stab Uncle Fergus while he's hiding ...
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