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Thread #100000 Message #1999861
Posted By: Rowan
17-Mar-07 - 09:06 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: What about the workers? (Peter Sellers)
Subject: RE: Folklore: What about the workers? (Peter Sellars)
Let me say. right away, that I do not regard existing conditions as likely. ...
I used to be able to recite the whole thing in the 1960s; wrretched memory cells! ABC Radio National is about to finish a voting competition on memorable speeches and this is one that Robyn Williams (of The Science Show) has been banging on about. RN's website might have it.
In connection with the same idea I've been trying to find Emmett's speech before his execution; composed in his cell without recourse to any writing materials I've only ever come across it once and it was bogglingly good. It too appeared on an LP, I think, along with a recitation of the last few pages of Joyce's "Ulysses". Wonderful!