> Speaking of Mao, I was struck by this passage in the libretto for
> Nixon in China, which I was listening to recently:
>
> Mao: You know we'll meet with your confrere
> The Democratic candidate
> If he should win.
> Nixon: That is a fate
> We hope you won't have to endure.
> I'd like to make another tour
> As President.
[...]
> Fiction, you could say, but the librettist, Alice Goodman, has said it
> was very faithful to the actual dialogue. Anyone know more about this?
I don't but I can say confidently that it's horribly bad verse. Somebody needed to read their Dryden.
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