A few moments, first. Reverence for the masters – A sudden blow: the great wings beating stillAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressedBy the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers pushThe feathered glory from her loosening thighs?And how can body, […]
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BLACKOUT In the dark, a VOICE: I’ll begin with women, and a Cathedral. The Cathedral is in Strasbourg, and it’s widely regarded to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in the world. Victor Hugo described it as a gigantic and delicate marvel. Goethe, as a sublimely towering, wide-spreading tree of God.
TIME AND PLACE 2019. New York City. A banquet room (with numerous flashbacks). SCENE 1 – Before the Banquet Stage left: A rectangular “Board of Directors” table with a number of chairs around it. PLATO and three DIRECTORS enter. General greetings, shaking of hands, slaps on shoulders, etc., before they sit down – PLATO chairing
TIME AND PLACES Spring to winter, essentially the 1940s, preserved in present day New York. Greenwich Village. A diner remarkably like the one in Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (1942); and in Scenes 3 and 4, a Greenwich Village apartment with an upstairs bedroom akin to Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles (1889): CHARACTERS TOM, 30s, the diner
A woman’s beauty is like a brown, fragile butterfly Her eyes. The sky. The wind and the love in the clouds above. There is no beauty as beautiful as the lines behind the eyes. The thoughts. The soul’s imagination. Inspiration. The voice that gives the width and depth and meaning to the beauty of the
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