RIP: Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard, wearing a black jacket over a white dress shirt, elbow on a round table, in 1990 at the Venice Film Festival. CC-BY-SA licensed photo by Gorup de Besanez

RIP, Tom Stoppard (NYT Gift Link; Archive).

My commonplace books are rife with bits of Stoppard’s plays I’ve collected over the years, but the simple bit I keep returning to most of late (since last November, at least) is from Jumpers.

Dottie is quoting Archie, her psychiatrist:

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting…

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