It's All Mira's Fault!
Author: DebbieB
Email: alluvus@primenet.com
Date: 1997/06/24
Forums: alt.fan.mira-furlan
Message-ID: <5oqa3d$n2k@nntp02.primenet.com>
I'm not the kind of person who goes around blaming total strangers for
things, but I do have to say it's all Mira's fault for bringing culture,
unexpectedly, into my life. (Shame on her.)
Here's the tragic tale of how it happened. I was in a used book store on
Saturday, flipping through the drama section while a friend got a Tarot
reading done. (This is Phoenix; we do that sort of thing here....)
Anyway, I see this little book of plays by Sophocles, including Antigone.
And I think, hey, Mira played Antigone in LA just about a year ago. Not
having much else to do (it was a half-hour tarot reading), I began to
thumb through it. Looked easy enough. Only a dollar. So I bought it.
The next day, I bring it with me to work. It's a Sunday--slow. Nothing
else to do. I crack open the book. Well, chronologically, Antigone falls
at the end of three plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonnus, and Antigone
(The Theban plays). I think to myself, well, Antigone will mean nothing
withouth the other two. So I read Oedipus Rex. It's really good. So I
read Oedipus at Colonnus. Also good (I'm reading the young Antigone parts
in my best Mira Furlan impersonations!).
So by the time I get to Antigone, I'm into this thing like the hottest
night-time soap opera! It's got everything: sex, lust, betrayal, incest,
war, suicide...you name it. My coworkers think I've gone nuts. I finish
the last play about an hour before I have to leave, and all I want to do is
start another one.
Shame on you, Mira! Shame, shame! I'm reading Sophocles! For fun!!!
And it's all your fault! <VVVBG>
Debbie
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