Word: aesop
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...Aesop Rock Labor Days...
...largely a memoir of the Mercury days, "he was capable of expressing an almost unlimited range of moods and emotions." (When, I won-der, did young Orson?s voice change? And was that the moment when he knew he?d be an actor?) Welles on radio was Homer or Aesop at a campfire, weaving worlds with words. "Everybody likes a good story," he said when "Campbell Playhouse" began, "and I think radio is just about the best storyteller there is." Thomson sees an ideal match of this man and this medium: "[H]e loved to float away on his magic...
Still, I figure the $200 I lost was a cheap lesson. Actually, it was very expensive and offered no lesson at all, but that's what people always say when they lose a big bet, so I'm going to play Aesop here and try to make myself feel better...