Mexico (Tennessee Williams)

[Keith Davis]

-The
right condition for him is that in which his work is not only
convenient but unavoidable.

Nice. I like it.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:09 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> http://genius.com/Tennessee-williams-the-catastrophe-of-success-annotated
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>



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