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JOHN: (With crazy grinning intensity, holding her fast.) Now listen here to the anatomy lecture! (Uses R. hand to point to places on chart.) This upper story's the brain, which is hungry for something called truth and doesn't get much but keeps on feeling hungry! This middle's the belly which is hungry for food. This part down here is the sex which is hungry for love because it is sometimes lonesome.

JOHN: You know who's crowned with most of the glory on this earth? The one who uses his senses to get all he can in the way of -- satisfaction. (He drinks.)
ALMA: Self-satisfaction?
JOHN: What other kind is there?

Seeing this now rarely performed 1948 play this weekend at Crow's Theatre in Toronto. Tennessee Williams later rewrote it as The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1964). Apparently it is a metaphor for his own "coming out."

well, that is the secret, the principle back of existence—the everlasting struggle and aspiration for more than our human limits have placed in our reach.—who was it that said that—oh, so beautiful a thing!—“all of us are in the gutter”—but some of us are looking at the stars!

o amor vive do que nós damos a ele

world book day

“Myslím, že člověk má žádat všechno, a být připraven na to, že nedostane nic.”