(You can tell I’m getting better because I’m tackling another pile of paper-lovely stuff.)

Artistic Director to Pllaywright: How many playwrights does it take to change a lightbulb?

Playwright: None, of course. We’re not changing a thing.

Playwright to Artistic Director: How many Artistic Directors does it take to change a lightbulb?

Artistic Director: Does it have to be a lightbulb?

News Item: “Almost everything you do today will be forgotten in just a few weeks”—often only a month later. Eighty-five per cent of our experiences have slipped beyond reach, unless boosted by artificial aids such as diaries and photographs.”

Book? The Rich Witch: A Crone’s Guide to Being Healthy Wealthy and Wild—-spells, charms, formulae, hexes, amulets, magic numbers ? (I don’t think so)

* “sanctification of everyday life”—see my essay “The Imaginary Woman” In Dropped Threads (pataphysics)

* from Woman of the Year (movie, screenp9lay by Ring Lardner,Jr. “Women should be kept illiterate, and clean, like canaries.”

* Did you know that when forceps were invented, QueenVictoria, informed of this boon to ease the pain of childbirth, cautioned the doctor not to let women know on the ground that it would just encourage them. Same attitude to anaesthesia.