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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: Tom Mc
Rae <<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></font></span><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Subject: LL-L re Resources</font></font></div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">On 28th June
Chris Hunt wrote..</font></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000"></font></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
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</font><blockquote style="margin-right:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm trying to
contact Tomas Mc Rae, the author of "The Life and Very Hard Times of
William McGonagall" on your website at </font></font></span></p></blockquote><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><blockquote style="margin-right:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/mcrae_mcgonagall.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,102,204)"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/history/mcrae_mcgonagall.php</font></span></a></span></p>
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</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000"></font><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I have
responded direct to him as follows and here is a copy for Lowlands members
info.</font></font></div></span></div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span><blockquote style="margin-right:0px"><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Hi Chris,</font></font></div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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I received your email via LOWLANDS-L.</font></font></div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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I saw the booklet on sale in the kiosk of the old Edinburgh Palladium theatre
many years ago when it put on James Bridie's play based on McG "Gog
and McCog" during an Edinburgh Festival. Title of booklet was 'The New
McGonagall' I had a quick glance at the time but as it had none of Oor Wullie's
verse in it I did not purchase it.</font></font></div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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I did however use the title as my stage name when I acted his role on the
walkways at World EXPO 88. As The New McGonagall </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">
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I recited some of his classics plus some of my own including "Funnel Web
Spiders". </font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></font> </div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In my intro I
recounted how it all started when I decided to invoke Shakespeare to channel
new material through me after I read about a woman who got composers to write
new music this way. I laid my hands on my computer and said "Hail William,
greatest bard of all time. Possess me now and produce new works". When I
came out of the trance my hard drive was full of poetry but by William
McGonagall who has been with me ever since.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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At least that's the yarn I spun when performing at EXPO 88 and I only
auditioned for that as a dare when someone told me they wanted eccentrics on
the Walkways. Next thing I knew I was booked and he went over well. Initially I
planned to do his comic song despite its impossible metre and actually did so
with great effect at rehearsals but never actually performed it as I was worn
out by the end of my act.</font></font></div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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A selection of stuff he should have written is on my website including The
Battle of Little Bighorn and Burke & Hare.</font></font></div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Born in
Edinburgh I was introduced to McG by my English teacher and have not looked
back since.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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Best Regards</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Tom Mc Rae</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Brisbane Australia</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">
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</font><font color="#000000"><i>Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolised.</i></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>
–Albert Einstein</i></font></font></div></p></p></p></p></p></p></blockquote><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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