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Desperate Dan, the mad mail man

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Mar 6, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/6/97
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I was wondering:

to what extent has the Doc shown an interest in the creative arts?

We've see him embrace the performance arts (recorder/spoons playing, and
Doc1 did a spot of acting in the MA "Empire of Glass" ISTR). And
exactly how much help, beyond playing secretary, did he render
Shakespeare?

But have we ever seen him actually dabble in a bit of writing himself?
Or composing? Or painting?

Personally, I can picture Doc1 turning his hand to the odd watercolour
landscape. Doc2? I do see him and Doc3 leaning, rather, towards
performance (they made a fine musical hall double act in "The Three
Doctors," I thought). Doc3 in particular I can see making a fine
conductor - though he might prefer to see himself as a star vocalist in
Doyle Carte (sp? - the Gilbert and Sullivan company). Or maybe the
writer/director/star of his own play.
I also see Doc3 sat by a roaring fire doing a nice, restful bit of
needlepoint. But then I'm funny that way.

Doc4? Sculptor in clay; definately something physical with his hands.

Doc5? Poetry seems too obvious somehow. I think, more than any of the
other Docs, Doc5 would be the one to at least try to put down in words
what he's 'about'; the biographer of the family.

Doc6? He'll give everything a go. But dare I say, I suspect he'd be
the type to never finish anything he starts. His attic will be
cluttered with unfinished works. (My prejudices are really beginning to
show now, aren't they? Ah well; push on.)

Doc7? For some reason I have this image in my head of Doc7 crouched
over an old typewriter banging out the next installment of "The
Adventures of the Spider", or some other such 30's pulp hero; something
escapist, anyway (and you would have to say, he would have a gift for
cliffhanger endings and last minute escapes).

Doc8? The songwriter of the family, definately. Please, please,
please, someone show him at least teaching himself the guitar.

There; my own personal view.

Any others out there?


Desperate Dan, the cadw man.
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"The essence of science: ask an impertinent question and you are on the
way to a pertinent answer."
Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man.

"You are impertinent, they said to me. I'm not impertinent, I said: I'm
lost."
Bertolt Brecht, Emigrant's Lament.

Ian McIntire

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Mar 6, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/6/97
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Desperate Dan, the mad mail man wrote:
>
> I was wondering:
>
> to what extent has the Doc shown an interest in the creative arts?
>
> We've see him embrace the performance arts (recorder/spoons playing, and
> Doc1 did a spot of acting in the MA "Empire of Glass" ISTR). And
> exactly how much help, beyond playing secretary, did he render
> Shakespeare?
>
> But have we ever seen him actually dabble in a bit of writing himself?
> Or composing? Or painting?
>
> Personally, I can picture Doc1 turning his hand to the odd watercolour
> landscape.

<snippage>



> Doc6? He'll give everything a go. But dare I say, I suspect he'd be
> the type to never finish anything he starts. His attic will be
> cluttered with unfinished works. (My prejudices are really beginning to
> show now, aren't they? Ah well; push on.)

I tend to think that the Sixth Doctor would be heavily musically
inclined. We hear him singing "On with the Motley" at the end of ep 12
of ToaTL, and he does seem to have a decent voice. I wrote a fanfic
where I mentioned him experimenting at the piano.

--
Ian McIntire i...@cwru.edu

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