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

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