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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.
— Feb 07, 2026 09:53AM
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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?
— Feb 07, 2026 12:49AM
ALMA: Self-satisfaction?
JOHN: What other kind is there?
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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."
— Feb 06, 2026 06:11AM
