So Cheerskep -- would you sit through all of Friel's TRANSLATIONS again --
just to get to the moment that gives you an  a.e. ?

Would you sit through a recording of all of that Niners playoff game again ---
just to get to its moment if a.e. ?

Or -- would you rather just see the highlights again?


I now realize that our responses to such things are so different, I have no
idea how you will answer.


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In Brian Friel's TRANSLATIONS, there is, for me, one
great moment, and it's worth sitting through the whole play. It's the scene
between the Irish girl speaking Gaelic (it's in English for us the audience,
but
the playwright has eased us into the convention -- we know that whenever an
Irish speaker utters something it's "in Gaelic"), and the British officer is
speaking English. We know they cannot translate a single word of the other's
speech, but we also can see they undersand each other perfectly. The moment
is,
as
the phrase goes, "Magic". Big a.e..
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