Better Because It’s Better: Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
Posted on December 1, 2025
by Eric P
ROS: Who was that?
GUIL: I didn’t see him.
ROS: I hardly knew him. He’s changed.
GUIL: Has he?
ROS: Originally a Czech—
GUIL: But he bounced–
ROS: Then a terminally cerebral author of Beckettian Shakespeare pastiches—
GUIL: And we’re forever grateful—
ROS: Thereafter an Oscar and Tony winner, chronicler of knotty histories and explorer of complicated emotional terrain.
GUIL: That’s a long trip.
ROS: Rough crossing.
GUIL: Knighted by the Queen, to boot.
ROS: Which queen?
GUIL: Is there a choice?
ROS: I’m leaving.
GUIL: Can’t.
ROS: Why not?
GUIL: Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. So even when you think you’re going, you’re actually arriving.
ROS: Discouraging.
GUIL: Not for Tom Stoppard at this particular moment in time.
ROS: Who?
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