Trivia
At the beginning of the show, Eddie arrives on stage through a huge book which opens to reveal him sitting at the top of a staircase. The backdrop then closes and from then on the background changes at various intervals with words from selected literature projected onto the pages of the huge book. The chosen selections are:
- A Marriage Proposal (a.k.a. The Proposal) - Anton Chekhov
- Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
- Macbeth - Shakespeare
- Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
- Edward II - Christopher Marlowe
As revealed in the commentary track, on each of these projections, every definite article has been replaced by the words "definite article."
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Famous quotes containing the word trivia:
“Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera—and himself.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)