There is a controversy about the attribution of a small commentary on the secret of the Kaddish (a Jewish prayer praising God, recited between sections of the daily prayer services and on behalf of departed relatives to Crescas.
It happened once driving across Mt. Olympus, and another time when I heard Neruda recited between sets of Bolero music in a Cuban nightclub.
Mr. Fossella was asked to recite the alphabet between the letters D and T. "The subject immediately started and said 'A, B,' " the officer wrote in his report.
But usually only briefly: some of its evening output aside, the station seems to have long since reverted to the template minted in the days of Dave Lee Travis and the rest, whereby "personality" DJs recite poor anecdotes in between today's hits, and anyone with A-levels is quickly forced elsewhere.
Who wouldn't want a swashbuckling lion slayer stopping in between safaris to recite poems and embrace her under the mosquito netting?
"Who wouldn't want a swashbuckling lion slayer stopping in between safaris to recite poems and embrace her under the mosquito netting?" Florence Williams asks in her review of "Too Close to the Sun," by Sara Wheeler (April 29).
The presenter has also admitted that he is on his "final warning" at the BBC after he was thought to have used the word "n****r" when reciting a rhyme between takes.
The tacitly accepted distinction between reciting a hired hand's slogans and usurping paragraphs from another individual led to the end of the 1988 presidential bid of Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware.
"Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled," wrote Robert Burns in 1793, a line that will be sung or recited countless times between this weekend and next at Burns Night suppers around the world where haggis, neeps, and tatties will be served and the "immortal memory" will be toasted.
Ah, for the days when the Big White Guy Writers roamed the streets of Manhattan, swooping down on comely maidens in the Cedar Tavern and carrying them off to their lairs for a bit of ravishing in between reciting lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
