Patrick Kavanagh - Steven Weinberg - Horace Walpole - The Wednesday Play TV -
The weak, washy way of true tragedy –
A sick horse nosing around the meadow for a clean place to die. Patrick Kavanagh, The Great Hunger, 1947
Humour is one of the leavening agents that makes the tragedy of our position possible. Steven Weinberg, interview Richard Dawkins
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole
One of the tragedies of the modern game is this factor that probably now we have quite a lot of gifted ball players because of the accent on ball control in modern football, which the public have not really seen, mainly because of the destructive attitude of some players with lesser ability. The Wednesday Play: The Golden Vision by Ken Loach, man in the know, BBC 1968