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Hello and welcome to tonight's Proms Plus, in which we're going to be exploring the power of quotation.

Fittingly enough, as we've just heard, Berrio's symphonia, with its musical

allusions to Stravinsky, Schernberg, Debussy, and so many others that, well, somebody must be

keeping count. Indeed, Berrio got so keen on the idea that he even quotes some of his own musical

ticks. But our theme now is literary quotation, and who better to help us explore that than Craig Rain,

best known as a poet, but also the author of the novel's heartbreak and the divine comedy,

and no prizes for spotting that quote.

During Craig's talk, the actor Peter Marinka will be delivering the readings,

so please give a warm welcome to them both.

Thank you. So please give a warm welcome to them both. Quotation in literature is a big topic, but I've got 15 minutes, a few.

So, three examples, all from Shakespeare, four examples if there's time.

First up, a Kipling story called Love of Women, which is about a womanising gentleman rancor called Larry Tai, who is dying of syphilis.

And he's in the late stages of syphilis.

He's got locomotor attacks here. he's got a wrecked nervous system,

and he's so bad he can't walk, and he's carried on a litter.

He's carried to meet his old forsaken love,

who now works in a whorehouse,

a fate he is responsible for.

And there he declares, like the wounded Antony,

outside Cleopatra's monument in Shakespeare's play,

I am dying Egypt, dying.

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