AUDIE CORNISH, host:
Now your reaction to last week's broadcast.
Last Sunday, Liane Hansen spoke with author Eleanor Brown about her book, "The Weird Sisters." It's about three daughters of an overzealous Shakespearean academic, who offers parental advice through poetry. During the interview, Brown failed to recall the origins of a certain line of Shakespeare.
HANSEN: Where is that quotation from, "Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers?"
Ms. ELEANOR BROWN (Author, "The Weird Sisters"): You know, I haven't the faintest idea.
HANSEN: You're kidding, me. Come on.
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Ms. BROWN: I'm not. When I started writing the book, I did lots and lots of reading and lots and lots of research. And I ended up with this enormous list of quotations that I wanted to use that I thought might be useful. And then, as I went through, I discovered that I couldn't write a scene just in order to use a specific quotation.
CORNISH: Douglas Brown of York, Maine, wrote us after the interview aired. He says: Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers, is from Act 4, Scene 2 of "Romeo and Juliet."
Robert Sekuler(ph) of Concord, Massachusetts, says: I've heard the first part of the line quoted but misused, in order to justify activities of dubious hygiene while someone was cooking.
Last Sunday, Liane Hansen spoke with Allison Pearson, author of the book, "I Think I Love You." Pearson said she was inspired to write the book after meeting her former teenage idol David Cassidy, as an adult, 30 years later. Pearson recalled her teenage infatuation.
Ms. ALLISON PEARSON (Author, "I Think I Love You"): I think it's kind of like 18 months of your life where you're kind of consumed. It's the most extraordinary, explosive period. It's the Cape Canaveral of the hormones, isn't it? I mean, those girls, the estrogen is surging out of them and it makes them - they're beautiful but they're demonic.
CORNISH: Laurel Raven-Larue wrote to us via Facebook. She says: It's the same way I feel every time I see Rick Springfield in concert. He's still rocking and I still get to feel like a teenager all over again.
And Karen Garrison writes on our Facebook page: I learned this the hard way, once when I went to a reunion concert of the Monkees. I was unprepared for that part of me to wake up and come screaming to life in an instant. It was funny. The transformation happened to the whole audience.
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YALE GLEE CLUB: (Singing)
CORNISH: Finally, we heard from many of you about our story on the 150th anniversary of the Yale Glee Club.
Catherine Brockenborough of Nashville, Tennessee, says: As I write this, I still wear the lingering remnants of the smile this story put on my face. My roommate and I both auditioned for the Yale Glee Club in the fall of 1988. She made it. I didn't. Instead, I became a Glee Club groupie. Their concerts were unfailingly uplifting and inspiring musical experiences.
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