INTERVIEWER: William Shakespeare was not a great writer?
2,000 YEAR-OLD MAN: Not a good writer at all.
INTERVIEWER: But he wrote 37 of the greatest plays in history.
2,000 YEAR-OLD MAN: Did you ever see the originals, the first folios… You never saw the folios? I saw the folios, your want me to tell you what they were? With blots of ink? With an “L” that looked like a “t,” with an “m” you didn’t know it was an “m,” with an “o” that looked like a “p” – every letter was cockeyed and crazy! Don’t tell me he was a good writer; he had the worst penmanship I ever saw in my life! (Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, “The 2,000 Year-Old Man”)
jrankin1959 2 days ago
INTERVIEWER: William Shakespeare was not a great writer?
2,000 YEAR-OLD MAN: Not a good writer at all.
INTERVIEWER: But he wrote 37 of the greatest plays in history.
2,000 YEAR-OLD MAN: Did you ever see the originals, the first folios… You never saw the folios? I saw the folios, your want me to tell you what they were? With blots of ink? With an “L” that looked like a “t,” with an “m” you didn’t know it was an “m,” with an “o” that looked like a “p” – every letter was cockeyed and crazy! Don’t tell me he was a good writer; he had the worst penmanship I ever saw in my life! (Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, “The 2,000 Year-Old Man”)