Mexico (Tennessee Williams)

[ish mailian]

Get out on the road and listen to the voices of ordinary working people.
And, after success?
Go to Mexico.
Roger that.



When the gauze mask was removed I found myself in a readjusted world.
I checked out of the handsome suite at the first-class hotel, packed
my papers and a few incidental belongings and left for Mexico, an
elemental country where you can quickly forget the false dignities and
conceits imposed by success, a country where vagrants innocent as
children curl up to sleep on the pavements and human voices,
especially when their language is not familiar to the ear, are soft as
birds. My public self, that artifice of mirrors, did not exist here
and so my natural being was resumed.

Then, as a final act of restoration, I settled for a while at Chapala
to work on a play called “The Poker Night,” which later became “A
Streetcar Named Desire.” It is only in his work that an artist can
find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense
than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without
recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The
right condition for him is that in which his work is not only
convenient but unavoidable.

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