Tennessee Williams, the genius

[inmyprime]

From the stage directions in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof:

"The bird that I hope to catch in the net of this play is not the solution of one man's psychological problem.  I'm trying to catch the true quality of experience in a group of people, that cloudy, flickering, evanescent--fiercely charged!--interplay of live human beings in the

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[starbleu]

Wow, beautiful doesn't begin to give it justice - makes me want to read more Tennessee...

[inmyprime]

I know. I felt pretty ridiculous when I was posting that I had used the word beautiful. It's much too ordinary a word.

This little note also just appears suddenly in the second act...right in the middle of the action. What a brilliant man.