Friday, September 23, 2011

Beddini (reading a telegram): 'Come ahead stop stop being a sap stop you can even bring Alberto stop my husband is stopping at your hotel stop when do you start stop.' I cannot understand who wrote this.


Dale: Sounds like Gertrude Stein.


    —Top Hat (1935)
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2 comments:

  1. Philip NelOctober 9, 2011 at 10:36 PM

    I love Top Hat, and especially love this line. For other modernist-mocking, see Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers: "Pardon me, while I have a strange interlude."

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  2. NataliaOctober 10, 2011 at 7:31 AM

    Not gonna lie, I worked this snippet into my MSA talk.

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