My "Top List": Part 1 -- Literature
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And, unless otherwise noticed, I've met a lady who does or knows every item in this list.<br />
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Part 1: Literature<br />
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Literature is fundamental to our understanding of our world. "Literature is the thought of Thinking Souls". The ultimate dancer is knowledgeable about literature, and appropriately contributes references to from the cannon of great works. Or, as the bard might have said, prose before hos.<br />
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<li>1 Point: Anything by Robert Service, but especially <i>The Shooting of Dan McGraw</i>. +1 point extra if a fight starts and she says "Why, I'm the lady who's known as Lou".</li>
<li>2 Points: Oscar Wilde. Even knowing who he is, but an extra point for "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?"</li>
<li>3 Points: Knowing who Faust is. +1 each for knowing Goethe and/or Marlowe's Faust. +1 for discussing Faust intelligently. +2 for stating, "But I really think of myself as the Femme Faust". She had me at that.</li>
<li>4 Points: Shakespeare (of course its on my list). While I have made, and heard Shakespeare references many times in Strip Clubs, one in particular sticks in my mind: "The problem comes down to this: Lady MacBeth was a frigid bitch. You can't tell me Hamlet wouldn't have been a whole lot more mellow if one of the maids was giving him BJs. You want to get a private dance"</li>
<li>5 Points: Anything Greek. The shining moment for me was a dancer named Lys. It turned out that it was short of Lysistrata. +1 if she knows the whole tale. +10 if she says "But, in the end, we're naught but rascals". I was about ready to propose right there.</li>
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So, next time you find yourself listening to dancers rehash the interminable debate about whos more of a ho, Brittany or Lindsey, try throwing out a line from the Bard, you never know who might answer. Do be careful however, for, sometimes the name is just a name. I was thrilled to find a dancer named Danae, but when I started talking about Poseiden and Zeus, she gave me a weird look and said the name just sounded cool.<br type="_moz" />
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I did talk to a stripper once, who was vaguely familiar with the Bard, but it was because she had seen Twelth Night. She was completely unfamiliar with any other play he had done. I changed subjects after seeing the deer in the headlights look. <br />
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I'm an English minor and I know that kind of thing is rare today. Most people I talk to have trouble speaking in complete sentences, and actually, my writing has suffered for it.
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Each of these conversations has really happened.<br type="_moz" />
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I did know a dancer who said she was a philosophy major who changed to psychology to improve her chances of employment. She was very sharp and observant... a student of human nature. Very entertaining.<br />
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