Sunday, February 20, 2011

All the World's a Stage

The color, the grace and levitation, the structural pattern in motion, the quick interplay of live beings, suspended like fitful lightning in a cloud, these things are the play, not words on paper, nor thoughts and ideas of an author, those shabby things snatched off basement counters at Gimbel's.

-TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Afterword to Camino Real

A Misunderstanding of Assignment

Christmas, 1968. Country Club Lane, Atlanta GA. The air was thick with it—not just the humidity of a Georgia winter, but the static of chang...