FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 27, 2014

I thought Lear was the name of a man in The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” song.

Naming The Scottish Play is only bad luck if you happen to be onstage.

This someone who finds reading the TITLE of a book a two-day challenge.

Richard Armour once noted that the speech that follows “Brevity is the soul of wit” is neither brief nor particularly witty.

Ain’t gonna work this time, Peter.

I consider “King Lear” the more cursed of the two, given what happens so often to the main actor.

They both tell about a dead king, but a different one in each play. However, you’d have to at least skim through the notes about each to know this.

Armour also penned the classic line, “Hamlet is a man who can’t act (unfortunately, also true of many who play Hamlet).”