From This Entertainment Industry, May The Gods

I Had No Idea Where These Kids At A Small Private College In The San Fernando Valley Were Coming From, Why They Were Coming To Hear Me, Or What They Needed To Know.

The Sophists' Paradoxical Talk Pieces And Their Public Debates Were Entertainment In 5th Century Greece. And In That World, Socrates Was An Entertainer.

When My Mother Left Her Second Husband, She Wrote Her Autobiography And Presented It To Him For His Approval.

While I Don't Script And I Don't Use Other Performers, I Think My Taste For Underlying Precision Gives Me Something In Common With Allan And George Brecht.

The Ancient Greek "oral Poets" All Had This Anxiety About The Deficiencies Of Their Memories And Always Began Poems By Praying To The Muse To Help Them Remember.