I didn't go to the moon. I went much further, for time is the longest distance between two places. I descended these steps of this fire escape for the last time, and followed from them on in my father's footsteps. Attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
I left St. Louis, I travelled around a great deal. The cities swept about me like deade leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torned away from their branches. I would have stopped but I was persued by something. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music, perhaps it was a bit of transparent glass. Perhaps I am walking along a street a night in some strange city before I have found any companions, and I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of colored glass. Tiny transparent bottles with delicate colors, like pieces of a shattered rainbow.
Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder, I turn around, I look into her eyes...
Oh Laura, Laura... I tried to leave you behind me but I am more faithful than I intended to be...
I light a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into a movie or a bar, speak to the nearest stranger... anything that can blow out your candles. For nowdays the world is lit by lightning.
Blow out your candles Laura. And so, Goodbye.
The Glass Menagerie. Tenessee Williams
posted by Patricio W @ 11:37 a. m.
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