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The Glass Menagerieby Tennessee Williams
Tom: What do you think Im at? Arent I supposed to have
anypatience to reach the end of, Mother? You think Im crazy about
thearehouse? You think Im in love ith the !ontinental
"hoemakers?You think I ant to spend fifty#five years don there in
that celote$interior? With flourescent tubes? %ook& Id rather
somebody picked upa crobar and battered out my brains than 'o back
mornin's( )ut I'o( *or si$ty five dollars a month I 'ive up all
that I dream of doin'and bein' ever& And you say self# selfs
all I ever think of( Why listen,if self is hat I thou'ht of Mother,
Id be here he is, +-.&
Im 'oin' to the movies& Im 'oin' to opium dens, yes, opium
dens,Mother( Ive /oined the 0o'an +an', Im a hired assassin, I
carry atommy 'un in a violin case( I run a strin' of cat houses in
the 1alley(They call me 2iller, 2iller Win'field( Im leadin' a
double life3 asimple, honest arehouse orker by day, by ni'ht, a
dynamic czar ofthe underorld, Mother( n occasion they call me .l
4iablo(
h I could tell you many thin's to make you sleepless( My
enemies
plan to dynamite this place( Theyre 'oin' to blo us all sky
hi'hsome ni'ht( Ill be 'lad, very happy, and so ill you& Youll
'o up, upon a broomstick, over )lue Mountain ith seventeen
'entlemancallers( You u'ly, babblin' old itch((((
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Like Dreaming, Backwardsby 2ellie 5oell
Yale: I sold her a ticket that ni'ht( I only reco'nized her
because((( eplayed four# s6uare to'ether once( "he introduced
herself( I don7treally remember anythin' e said, but she seemed
seet( I didn7tkno her last name until I sa the article in the
paper( It said that sheas a sophomore and a /ournalism ma/or( "he
as from 8oliet( "hehad a youn'er sister in hi'h school, named
!arolyn( I don7t kno hyI remember everythin' about that article(
0er picture((( as in blackand hite and it as ri'ht under the
9I#4#.9 in 9suicide(9 I don7t knohy I7m tellin' you this(
The picture as small, it didn7t look like a school picture, it
lookedmore like a candid shot( "he as sort of smilin', but she
lookedsomeho((( suspicious( I have a stran'ely vivid memory((( of
her face(
That ni'ht((( she seemed fine( *riendly, and smilin'( And I
couldn7thave done anythin' different( And I couldn7t have knon hat
sheas feelin'( )ut then, I didn7t ask, did I?
I /ust never kne anyone ho died(((
