David Marjanovic wrote:
Really, is there anything that's not funny about "Osborn, here is my accumulated store of Marshiana. In these papers I have a full recordof Marsh's errors from the very beginning, which at some future time I may be tempted to publish"? If you're not actually _in_ the plot, thiskind of obsession is so bizarre I can only giggle.
Hey, *many's* the time I wished I'd had a drawer full of Marshiana (or whatever).
Comparisons of Drs. Marsh and Cooper, however, are a bit problematic because the latter is such an unrealistic cluster of personality traits.
Well... *yes*. And if Hollywood or Broadway or whatnot decides to do a comedy treatment of Victorian scientists, the urge to bend characters in whichever direction gets a laugh will be irresistible.
the cold-blooded murder of an entire lineage of nobles one-by-one"And now, at last, I -- shall be king -- of E--"
Now, *that's* funny! :-) -- Donna Braginetz