> > So is he a racist
>
> You've got to take into account that Jim is writing in
> character.
...I'm with that, and as characters go the historian is hardly a sympathetic one
"The HISTORIAN is the Narrator of the entire play. He is a dirty, crotchety, withered old man. But He should be played by a young man, and though He suggest menace, decay and evil, He must be appealing to the audience, a character from farce...a cosmic W.C. Fields on amphetamines, without the accent..."
The audience is supposed to find him offensive, not be converted to some sort of perverted racist ideology.
Ali
Btw. I also did a double take the first time I heard that line from wonderful toys, but when I rewound it I was pretty convinced it meant racoons, although I admit I don't know the first thing about Davy Crockett.
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