Spin

At a shared office I saw somebody using a white board, which appeared to be references to King Lear - and indeed this was, not as part of any management system, which is the main use of white boards, but an A-Level student who was writing upon it lines from the play to fix them in her mind for tomorow's exam.

I remarked upon seeing a production with sheep in at a Jevington farm a decade ago, and that Cordelia has a great line early on which I cited in a Council speech - I forget the exact occasion - as the perfect definition of spin: "If for I want that glib and oily art / To speak and purpose not"