Tetrogrammaton

Tetracketermit

Traparitan

Traparmit Trap is a stage turn, it's an abbreviation of the expression, stage property.

Give me an example.

Anything that you may see up on a stage besides the actor and the scenery is likely to be a prop, for example,

Yorick's skull is a prop and the Romeo's

vial of poison and the telephone and dial-in for murder. They're all props. I see. And there's

props in real life and we're self-conscious. We put our hands to our neckties and light a cigarette,

all that sort of thing. In other words, a prop is just what it means in the dictionary. It's something to prop

ourselves with. It's a crutch, something to lean on. I remember the first night I was ever in Hollywood.

I was speaking. After dinner speaking, I'd been introduced as a great after-dinner speaker. I don't know quite why, because I'm not.

But I had been, and this is a great Hollywood dinner.

Every star I'd ever seen in my life, I was tremendously impressed.

There they all were, and a lot of other grand people besides, Maharajas,

and all kinds of title folk, and I'd been called upon.

Of course, being very frightened and very eager to please, I started a funny story which I'd heard that day.

And I'd gone on for a while when it dawned on me that I'd forgotten how it ended.

I continued with the story. I hoped that somehow I'd find an ending, somehow be able to invent one.

And the people were all looking very eagerly, waiting for the finish, because they knew that although the story was very boring, it must be boring for a purpose.

Obviously it was boring because the end was going to be so tremendously amusing.

They often looked at me eagerly and I continued and continued and I thought,

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