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, from the Afterword to Camino Real

The Telegram at Ur

There lived an older man of quiet habits, whose world was bounded by the four walls of his home and the gentle presence of his beloved cat. ...