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proximoception) wrote2011-02-24 05:05 pm
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31. Our Town
Takes a huge risk with its horribly boring first act - maybe more tolerable in performance, where moving your eyes isn't required to make time pass? Then the triviality starts to mean something, or anyway to indict less trivial somethings as less real. An interesting move, parallel to some by Frost - whose "Cabin in the Clearing" is especially close to the third act. As is Hamlet's richest sentence, "Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is't to leave betimes?"
Takes a huge risk with its horribly boring first act - maybe more tolerable in performance, where moving your eyes isn't required to make time pass? Then the triviality starts to mean something, or anyway to indict less trivial somethings as less real. An interesting move, parallel to some by Frost - whose "Cabin in the Clearing" is especially close to the third act. As is Hamlet's richest sentence, "Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is't to leave betimes?"