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Wouldnt it be more interesting if we actually grew to like each other?
a dead kings mistress asks that same kings wife in the plays first act.
A subversion, she suggests, of what everyone wants and expects to happen.
What does not exist yet?
she asks the universe, searching for a metaphor for herself that doesnt feel used, owned, colonized.
I am after a new form.
Its one of the primary genre responses of our moment to our moment.
Two related, uncoincidentally witchy practices, the former sometimes necessitated by the latter.
Its anti-Aristotelian, implicitly sometimes explicitly femme and sexy (multiple climaxes), and deeply concerned with ancestry.
Theyre there for each other, and watching them is like watching an enthusiastic game of four square.
Bordelon adroitly handles the plays cantering, heightened-but-casual banter.
Diane snaps at Catherine).
Pauses would kill the patter, and Bordelon keeps her actors flying.
I was a fish!
My life was taken for sport.
They were shitty!!
He was shitty!!!
), it doesnt, in fact, cancel Hemingway.
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