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From Terry Teachout's "In one era and out the other"

Overheard yesterday at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival:

• Middle-aged woman in socks and sandals: “Have you seen The Diary of Anne Frank yet? I decided to go, even though I don’t like seeing depressing shows—George Bush already has me depressed enough.”

• Older woman: “It says here in the program that William Inge—he’s the man who wrote this play, honey—was ‘ashamed at being homosexual.’ What do you think of that?”

Older man: “Huh.”

Older woman: “Well, what I want to know is, if he was so ashamed, why didn’t he just stop?”

posted by terryteachout @ Friday, June 2, 2006