Why Sir Tom Stoppard is twitterless
AS one of the three million twitter-less, facebook-free folk, sublimely happy not to own a computer, I am thrilled to find out that eminent playwright Sir Tom Stoppard is one of our exclusive off-line coterie.
Says Sir T: “I don’t have a computer, nor a twitter machine.”
When he does have an idea he doesn’t feel the need to commit it to modern technology.
How reassuring to know that when all about him are frenziedly tweeting idiotic platitudes, “About to eat a croissant”, “Been waiting ten minutes for a bus”, Sir Tom is thinking great thoughts and – until they emerge from the mouths of our most gifted thespians on stage at the National – keeping them to himself.