How To Disappear Completely

With Cat-Like Tread

Tatiana Trevor and I journied via doubledecker bus to Chipping Norton last night in order to catch a production of "Pirates of Penzance." Though my very favoritest Gilbert and Sullivan is "The Mikado," "Pirates" comes in a close second. The theater was a small, intimate community type affair. The actors were ecclectic community type affairs, as well. Amongst the blooming roses of the Modern Major-General's daughters were some actresses in their 60s or 70s at least. What fun! The only downside was that the singer playing Mabel was making both Tatiana and myself squirm in sympathetic misery--"drop your jaw, don't strain, etc." The part of Mabel is hard, but when the audience is consistantly made aware of the fact, something has gone wrong.

For some reason, watching any Gilbert and Sullivan always makes me want to watch "Chariots of Fire." The two are inseperably connected in my mind.

At any rate, I will have "With cat-like tread, upon our prey we steal" in my head for a while...
Or "On information vegatable, animal or mineral, I am the very model of a modern major-general."
Or "Poor wandering one..."
Or "How beautifully blue the sky,"
Or "A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenius paradox.."

Or "Here's to a first rate opportunity
To get married with impunity,
And indulge in the felicity
Of unbounded domesticity.
You shall quickly be parsonified,
Conjugally matrimonified,
By a doctor of divinity,
Who is located in this vicinity."

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/web_op/mid/pp9_10.mid

The English language is absurd...