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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I meant his sig line- here wonk use this.
"Shall I as Mayor initiate proceedings? -however titular and insubstantial and merely honorific the position. Which argues against my doing so."
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My favorite scenes in Deadwood are those involving Farnham and Richardson. I never would have thought it would be possible now to effectively use the idea of the lower status Shakespearean tavern world, but that's where Farnham and Richardson derive from. To describe them as "fools" would be way off. Farnham is more Malvolio than Feste. A shockingly racist, not so puritan Malvolio. There's probably a better comparison. Lucio perhaps. But Farnham's unique from Shakespeare's tavern characters because he's actually received some commercial and social success. Nowhere near as much as he'd like, particularly socially. Yet his success can't elevate him out of the tavern world -- he clearly has much more in common, and is much closer with Richardson than Swearingen.
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