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...there are relatively few modern productions of Luigi Pirandello's plays despite his highstature in the literary world. Pirandello wrote academic exercises more than he wrote plays, she told me, and so they're very hard to put on. My friend's language alone conveys the split between literature and drama: Pirandello's plays equal academic equal exercise equal work. So they can't be put on... pretended... played...
...fairness, this split between drama and literature is far from absolute. Playwrights as diverse (and widely performed) as Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, and David Mamet are considered great writers in much the same way that Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, or Don DeLillo are highly regarded. But this doesn't erase the gulf between dramatic literature and other types of literature. Writing a play still seems fundamentally different than writing a novel or a poem for more than the obvious stylistic disparities. I have to believe there's still a lingering senseof this difference between work and play...
...company. But soon I've messed everything up. The dealer is showing a 6 up, my new grandmother has got 11 and I've got 14. This is textbook. She doubles down, doubling her wager and taking only one more card from Tony. Other players at the table have split and/or doubled down repeatedly. By the time the dealer gets to me, there's a shitload of money on the table. Everyone knows what I'm supposed to do. Stay. Odds are the dealer has a 10 or face card underneath his six. This will give him 16, which...
...back several decades, you'll see the majority of students interested in majoring in the social sciences or humanities," Fitzsimmons said. "In the last 10 years, we've seen closer to a 50-50 split, and more recently we've seen closer to 55 percent in the sciences...
Yale (10-15, 6-6), who split this past weekend with Columbia and Cornell, will enter its contest against Penn with the league's best defense. The Bulldogs are holding opponents to just...