The zoo story
Hello everyone. I was reading the play the zoo story written by Edward Albee and there's a passage difficult for me. Here it goes:
"What were you trying to do? Make sense out of things? Bring order? The old pigeonhole bit?"
So, in this context, what is the meaning of this phrase "the old pigeonhole bit?
Thank you a lot!
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Lucas Fernandes
Top answer
Look up the verb "pigeonhole". The noun is what we call the little box that we put messages in. There is a sort of shelving affair that hangs on the wall consisting of criss-crossed slats forming little open boxes.
- Look up the verb "pigeonhole".
- The noun is what we call the little box that we put messages in.
- There is a sort of shelving affair that hangs on the wall consisting of criss-crossed slats forming little open boxes.
- Each box is a pigeonhole.
- To pigeonhole something is to arbitrarily and rigidly categorize it.
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Look up the verb "pigeonhole". The noun is what we call the little box that we put messages in. There is a sort of shelving affair that hangs on the wall consisting of criss-crossed slats forming little open boxes. Each box is a pigeonhole. To pigeonhole something is to arbitrarily and rigidly categorize it. The speaker is using informal flippancy with the standard formula "the old X bit", "ol
0old: well-known; familiar
to pigeonhole: to treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; to classify into a specific (often simplistic) category
bit: theatrical routine; habitual procedure
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0The old pigeonhole bit ... I played Peter in the play in 1969 ... to me those words mean ... categorizing, labeling, isolating, judging ... Brilliant play ... Important play Brilliant Playwright ... Important Humanitarian Work.
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